People gathered at the Kansas Statehouse on Tuesday to urge lawmakers to expand Medicaid eligibility. Georgia
Master, Jackie Chase and Bob Chase attended on Allen County’s behalf, as members of the Rural Health Initiative.
DAN BRENNAN/KHI

Medicaid expansion a ‘moral, not political,’ cause
By STEVEN SCHWARTZ
The Iola Register

N

early 200 people descended
on the Statehouse Tuesday to voice their support
for Medicaid expansion; they came
away with equal amounts optimism
and discouragement, according to
two Iolans.
Jackie Chase and Georgia Masterson were two of the representatives in Topeka, both appearing as
part of the Rural Health Initiative.
The rally was organized by the Kansas Medicaid Access Coalition.
“It was enough to get their notice,” Masterson said of the group’s
exercise. They had the chance to
discuss the topic with Rep. Kent
Thompson (who both Masterson

and Chase described as “open-minded” to any expansion decision), and
had an appointment to meet with
State Senator Caryn Tyson, who
failed to show up for their meeting.
While both Masterson and Chase
described the event as “optimistic,”
reality quickly set in. Despite the
fact surveys prove Kansans support the expansion, most politicians
aren’t keen to align themselves with
anything to do with the Affordable
Care Act, President Obama’s signature legislation.
“Until the governor’s election
takes place, it’s probably not going
to be something that is acted on,”
Masterson said.
“They (politicians) don’t want to

“We are leaving the poorest of
the poor out there
to fend for themselves. I can’t believe we would do
this to our most
vulnerable.”
— Jackie Chase, Rural Health
Initiative

Rotary International is within
an eyelash of completing its ambitious effort to eradicate polio
in the world through funding of
vaccine.
“We’re down to Afghanistan,
Pakistan and Nigeria,” Ellis Potter told Iola Rotarians Thursday.
The fear of polio struck the
heart of every parent until a vaccine was discovered in the 1950s.
Eradicating polio became an
ongoing project of Rotary clubs
throughout the
world 25 years
ago.
“We
should
have it done
very soon,” Ellis
said, although
he allowed that
political blockades have pre- Ellis Potter
vented as much
headway as the
organization would like in the
three countries where new cases
continue to occur.
“The day will come, though,
when there is no more polio anywhere in the world,” he said.
Polio, also referred to as infantile paralysis, is an infectious
disease first recognized in 1840.
It attacks the spinal cord, and at
its height required “iron lung,”
devices to help patients breathe.
If they survived, many children
were left as cripples.
An effective vaccine was developed in the 1950s by Dr. Jonas
Salk, which quickly reduced the
number of polio cases.
When Rotary International
adopted its eradication program
in 1988, there were 350,000 cases
worldwide. By 2012, the last statistics available, that number
had dwindled to 223.

See RALLY | Page A3

See POLIO | Page A4

Area forces join to rescue endangered children
By STEVEN SCHWARTZ and KAYLA BANZET
The Iola Register

The law can give a voice to a child in need, in danger
or in a state of neglect; but oftentimes the right answer
is not always the clearest one. One thing always holds
true — when in doubt, the children are top priority.
“Handling cases that deal with kids is number one,”
Allen County Attorney Wade Bowie said.
Child endangerment cases can be some of the most
difficult to prosecute, due to certain “gray areas.”
Bowie said the cases are always different, and he and
Assistant County Attorney Christopher Phelan must
examine the facts separate of any prior situation.
“Everything we do is fact-dependent and we have to
evaluate the facts,” Bowie said. “They’re (law enforcement) always going to err on the side of caution.”
Iola Police Chief Jared Warner echoed the sentiment. He said the officers take extra caution with cases
involving children, and will do anything in their power to protect them. He said his office has seen 10 cases
this year, which is significantly higher than normal.
The county attorney’s office has already dealt with 35
cases this year. Of the 35, eight of them are truancy
cases, which do not typically result in the child being
removed from the home.
See CHILDREN | Page A4 Aimeé Daniels is the executive director of CASA for

the southeast Kansas region.

“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will
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Obituary

Police report

Barbara Bell

Vehicles
burglarized

Barbara A. Bell, 76, of Kansas City, Kan., passed
away on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, at Richmond
Healthcare and Rehab in Richmond.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Monday at
the Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel, Garnett, with burial at 1:30 p.m. at the Johnson County
Memorial Garden, Overland Park.
Memorial contributions may be made to the
American Cancer Society.

Carlyle news
The Carlyle Country
Club met last Thursday in Humboldt. Jeanice Cress was hostess.
There were 14 members
and two guests present,
Greta Ladd and Levi
Miewes.
The group met at the
Wes Dewey Art Studio
and saw Collin Haire’s
glass blowing projects.
From there they went
to the Humboldt library
for a business meeting
and refreshments.
Pastor Steve Traw’s
message on Sunday at
the Carlyle Presbyterian Church was “The
Passover, A Beginning.”
Those celebrating birthdays are Travis Smith
on March 21 and Phyllis Loomis on Sunday.
Anniversaries are Don
and Ella Britt, March
17, Glen and Patty Herschberger, March 17, and
Linda and Melvin Guenther, March 20. A fellowship dinner followed the
service. Bible study is at
3 p.m. Tuesday.
Alma
Herchberger

Joanne
McIntyre
365-2829
received word her sisterin-law, Elizabeth Yoder,
was a patient in Olathe
Medical Center with a
broken hip. She is now
in Garnett in a nursing
home and doing well.
Greg and Jackie McIntyre held a birthday
party for their granddaughter,
Zoey
McIntyre, who turned 2 on
March 6. Those attending were her parents,
Zack and Kady McIntyre, rural Yates Center; Ashton and Brandon
Birk, Gridley; Steve and
Rita Porzio, Kincaid;
Judy, Bruce and Ryan
Cochran, Dustin Smart
and Rochelle McGhee,
Jim Henson, Iola; and
Joanna McIntyre and
Levi Sauerssig, Gridley.

Burn ban is lifted
With calmer weather
conditions
forecast,
the burn ban in Allen
County was lifted Friday.
Sheriff Bryan Murphy announced suspension of the ban.
Murphy encouraged
farmers, especially, to

be careful when burning fields.
With a controlled
burn, a call to dispatch
headquarters, 365-1460,
and local firefighters
should be made, Murphy added, “so we’ll
know what’s going on.”

Polio: Eradicated
Continued from A1

Statistics to do with Rotary are staggering.
Potter said the organization has 34,644 clubs in
more than 200 countries
and 1.2 million members, who speak 102 different languages.
The organization has
clubs for high school
students (Interact) and
younger adults (Rotaract), as well for volunteers (Rotary Community Corps).
Rotary began in 1905
in Chicago when Paul
Harris — its most notable founder — and three
professional
friends
formed a club to become better acquainted.
The name came from
them rotating meetings
among their offices.
Iola’s Rotary Club
dates to 1917, and, as
are others, is comprised
of business and professional people who put

“service above self.”
Today’s Iola club has 48
members.
“We’re here to serve
the community,” Potter
said.
The club for years has
helped with waste paper
drives, and this summer
will sponsor a car show
at the Allen County Fair
and a barbecue cookoff.
Club members have
picked up trash along
nearby highways and
often volunteer to help
with many local projects. The Southwind
Trail’s shelter three
miles south of Iola was a
Rotary project.
The Iola club also has
sent members to Chile
and Easter Island to construct simple but effective eyeglasses for people who otherwise would
go without and has been
involved in water purification projects.

Threats reported

Holly
Schomaker,
Iola, reported to police
officers several things
were stolen from her
vehicle while it was
parked near her house
Sunday in the 800 block
of
North
Jefferson
Street.
On Monday Jamie
Wilson reported an
undisclosed amount
of cash was stolen
from her vehicle in
the 800 block of North
Street.
Also on Monday Erin
Splechter, 29, Iola, reported her vehicle was
broken into in the 800
block of North Sycamore Street. Her checkbook,
miscellaneous
paperwork and an undisclosed amount of
money were taken.
Leo King Wood, 49,
Iola, reported tools, tool
boxes, and fishing poles
were stolen from his
vehicle March 13 in the
200 block of North Elm
Street.

On Monday, Jacqueline Layton, 36, Iola,
told officers she had
received
threatening
phone calls. A suspect
was named.

Drug arrest made
On Tuesday, James
Williams, 19, Iola, was
arrested for possession
of certain hallucinogenic drugs, possession
of drug paraphernalia,
and no liability insurance following a traffic
stop in the 600 block of
North Cottonwood.

Playground
fire reported
On Wednesday, officers responded to a
fire on the playground
at Lincoln Elementary
School. Damage was
minimal.

dence on Wednesday.
On March 13, William
Krone, Iola, told officers
his residence was burglarized in the 700 block
of East Street. Tools
were stolen from the garage.

Arrests made
John Cox Jr. was
arrested for an Allen
County District Court
warrant on Wednesday.
On March 13, Summer Salzwedel, 29, Iola,
was arrested for a Chanute warrant.
Kimberly Lorrainne
Sigler was arrested on
Sunday for driving under the influence of
alcohol, not reporting
an accident of an unattended vehicle and not
rendering aid or giving
information.
David Lomon was
arrested on March 14
for being a pedestrian
under the influence of
alcohol, after a disturbance on South State
Street.
Amy Callaway was

arrested on March 15
for a Chanute warrant.
Jeffry Stanford was
arrested for domestic
battery and Mikeal J.
Stanford was arrested
for aggravated assault
following an incident on
Scott Street on March
15.
Vanetta Cummings,
23, Iola, and Devon
Simpson, 18, Iola, were
arrested for furnishing
alcohol to minors. Several juveniles also were
taken into custody following an incident in
the 600 block of North
Chestnut Street.

Bicycle found
Officers recovered a
Next 20-inch boys bicycle in a ditch at Willow
and Kansas Drive.

Bicycle stolen
On March 15, Ronda
Poffenbarger, 56, Iola,
reported a brown and
tan colored Rebel Mongoose bicycle stolen
from her property in
the 800 block of Wilson
Lane.

Parts, Hazardous
Materials, Wet or
Lead Based Paint,
Ammunition,
Demolition or
Construction
Debris.... If any of
these items are mixed
with the regular
debris the City will
not pick up at that
address.
If you have any
questions call:
365-4903 or 365-4910

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Rally: Advocating for expansion
Continued from A1

support something that
may affect them in the
future,â&#x20AC;? Chase said.
The issue is highly
partisan and polarized,
they said, but more so in
the Statehouse than on
a local level. Masterson
and Chase, Democrat and
Republican, respectively,
said the issue is more
moral than political â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at
least thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how it should
be viewed.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it blurs the
boundaries, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a Republican,â&#x20AC;? Chase said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The
most important issue is
the moral issue.â&#x20AC;?
ACCORDING to a report from the Kansas
Health Institute, around
80,000 Kansas fall into the
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Medicaid gapâ&#x20AC;? that has
been created by the lack
of expansion. When the
Affordable Care Act was
drafted, Masterson said,
it was designed to rely on

cooperation between the
state and federal government. When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
ACA was constitutional,
they also stipulated that
states could not be forced

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are leaving the
poorest of the poor out
there to fend for themselves,â&#x20AC;? Chase said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I
canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe we would do
this to our most vulnerable.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just in Topeka. I think most
middle class and wealthy people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
realize how hard it is. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heartbreaking.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Georgia Masterson

to expand the Medicaid
funding.
This is where â&#x20AC;&#x153;the gapâ&#x20AC;?
comes into play.
Without the expansion,
single, childless adults are
not eligible for Medicaid
despite their income and
adults with children are
only eligible if they earn
less than 32 percent of the
poverty level â&#x20AC;&#x201D; around
$630 a month for a threeperson household, according to the KHI report.

Masterson said there is
a misconception that the
issues are not as urgent
as people make them out
to be.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just in Topeka. I think most middle
class and wealthy people
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize how hard it
is,â&#x20AC;? Masterson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
heartbreaking.â&#x20AC;?
And the impoverished
are not the only affected
parties. Chase said Allen
County Regional Hospi-

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tal, now a county-funded
entity, is facing dramatic
reductions in funding
from the federal government. The guidelines
of the ACA anticipated
Medicaid coverage to increase, reducing the support needed from the federal government. Without
Medicaid expansion the
hospital will not see an increase in coverage, while
experiencing a reduction
in funding.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The potential for that
will be devastating for our
hospital,â&#x20AC;? Masterson said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just the hospital, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Allen County,
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our own tax dollars,â&#x20AC;?
Chase added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It does hurt
people in this community,
not just the people who
canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get health insurance.â&#x20AC;?
All anyone can do is
voice their opinion, both
said, and hope that someone can see their side of
the story, Masterson said.

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Children: Cases are most difficult, important to charge
Continued from A1

The law states that endangerment of a child is a situation where they “may” be in
dangerous situation:
Endangering a child is
knowingly and unreasonably
causing or permitting a child
under the age of 18 years to be
placed in a situation in which
the child’s life, body or health
may be endangered.
The next level of charge is
“aggravated endangerment,”
which essentially replaces the
“may be endangered” with “is
endangered.”
Bowie said numerous types
of situations can qualify as an
endangerment case. Recently
in the district court, cases
have come up involving drug
charges and driving under
the influence. If a child is surrounded by a drug-making environment — like a methamphetamine lab — Bowie said
oftentimes
endangerment
charges will be filed. However,
the level of severity can differ
if the drugs or other dangerous objects are readily available to the child or kept away
from them.
Phelan said in a circumstance where a driver is under
the influence with children in
the vehicle, parent or not, endangerment charges will be
filed by the county attorney.
It’s environmentally driven,” Phelan said.
But the possibilities don’t
end there. Bowie said there
can even be considerations
if the parents knowingly allow their underage children
to be involved with criminal
or dangerous activity — some
parents may not even make
the connection.
Something both attorneys
made very clear, endangerment and abuse are two different charges, but are closely
related.
“They are next to each oth-

er in the statutes,” Bowie said.
An abuse charge is filed
only if physical harm comes
to the child, and Phelan said
the endangerment charges
are more common than abuse
charges.
“It’s not one of the most
common charges,” Phelan
said. “Most people want to be
good parents.”
A DECISION on whether
to charge a defendant is only

trict court judges for children
who need care during abuse
or neglect and in some cases
child endangerment,” Aimeé
Daniels, executive director of
CASA said.
Daniels said neglect of a
child is when a parent fails to
provide for a child. This could
be unsanitary conditions, not
providing proper clothing,
not taking the child to the doctor and refusing services for a
child’s disability. Neglect is a

The trauma of taking a child out of the
home is significant. And if there’s not a family member for them to stay with, they will
end up with strangers.
— Allen County Attorney Wade Bowie

the first step in the decision
making process, and any action from that point forward
can and will have an impact
on the child.
“The trauma of taking a
child out of the home is significant,” Bowie said. “And if
there’s not a family member
for them to stay with, they
will end up with strangers.”
If danger is imminent, both
attorneys said the child must
be removed from the home as
soon as possible — what they
called a “child in need of care
case,” which is separate from
endangerment or abuse. One
does not require the other.
The end goal is what is best
for the child, Phelan pointed
out, not to remove the child
from the home.
“Reintegration is the case’s
goal, we want the child to be
back home,” he said.
CASA, Court Appointed
Special Advocates, becomes
a part of this process to help
the child.
“We’re appointed by dis-

civil court case and usually
stems from poverty, she said.
“The majority of parents
don’t neglect their children on
purpose,” Daniels said. “With
that being said, sometimes
they don’t seek employment
or have a drug problem.”
Neglect is usually reported
by educators, relatives or daycare providers. In such cases,
a petition is drafted as a civil
matter. CASA reviews all cases but only take on the most
complicated and serious matters.
Warner said the police respond immediately to a child
in need of care. They will remove them from the home,
and place them in police protective custody, and the advocates take the reins from
there.
“We match advocates to a
case,” Daniels said. “Some advocates prefer working with a
specific age group or some are
uncomfortable with certain
cases. We try to meet the advocate’s needs as well.”

CASA advocates try to make
the child as comfortable as
possible and eventually help
the child return home. There
are 18 advocates at CASA currently.
“There’s a common misconception that we take kids out
of the home for no reason,”
Bowie added.
The advocate meets with
the child face to face at least
once a month. Most advocates
visit more than once and they
attend all the hearings in
court. There are also family
planning meetings that help
the family so the child can return home.
“They stick with them all
the way through until the
end,” Daniels said. “It creates
a close relationship with the
children and the advocate.”
If the problems can be fixed
immediately, Bowie said he
may refer the case to the Department of Children and
Family Services (DCF) before
any further action is taken.
But, oftentimes removal from
the home is the best option
and the child will be placed
into police protective care for
up to 72 hours. He said if there
is endangerment, that can
mean there are “multiple issues in the home” from which
the child needs to be removed.
AS BOWIE pointed out, it is
not the court’s duty to remove
a child from their home, and
they have just as much of a
duty to not file a charge if the
situation does not demand it
— and that can be the most
difficult part.
“Educating parents is part
of it,” Bowie said. The line between endangerment and other things can be blurry, and
they need to know as much
as possible for both of their
sakes.
“I don’t have to file a charge
in each situation,” he said.
“We want to help maintain

the family unit.”
Daniels said there are ways
to keep that family unit together. The Department of
Children and Family Services
does have a voluntary program for parenting skills and
classes to give them advice.
The program teaches the family how to budget and explains
what benefits they have available to them. The Douglas
County Citizens Committee
on Alcoholism also has a contract with the DCF to assist a
family before problems arise.
“They can go into the home
and work with the family and
talk about poverty, child behavior and resources,” Daniels said. “If more people
sought help there would be
less endangerment.”
Both Bowie and Phelan
agreed that voluntary action
on the parents’ part is the optimal resolution, and something that can be monitored
by the courts if need be. But,
they also said they will not
hesitate to act if they need to.
“We don’t want to do it,”
Bowie said. “But we will if we
have to.”

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Moral Mondays: A time to redirect our compass
Kansas had its own Moral
Monday, but it was on Tuesday.
In Georgia, protestors
flooded the state capitol Monday against the Legislature’s
refusal to expand Medicaid
guidelines as provided in the
Affordable Care Act. It was
the ninth consecutive Monday activists have convened
at the capitol in a movement
they call Moral Monday, an
offshoot of Truthful Tuesdays begun last year in South
Carolina.

Susan
Lynn
Register
editor

Topeka
experienced
a
much milder version of protests Tuesday when about
200, including several Iolans,
went to the state capitol in
hopes of conveying to legislators the advantages of expanding Medicaid offerings.
If supporting Medicaid
expansion somehow aligns
them with President Obama,

EDUCATION
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no Kansas Republican will
come within a mile of the
measure.
As with our Southern
neighbors, Kansas now belongs to the right wing. As
never before, an ultra-conservative governor and Legislature are suppressing citizens’
rights in Kansas.
To wit:
• Kansas children are being deprived of an adequate
education through underfinanced schools. Funding is
so low the Kansas Supreme
Court declared it unconstitutional;
• Access to affordable
health care is being denied
through cumbersome new
regulations and fees imposed
on the health care navigators
as well as the state’s own refusal to promote the federal
program;
• The freedom to vote is
being restricted; 11,000 voter
registrations hang in limbo
because of Kansas Secretary
of State Kris Kobach’s cam-

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paign against immigrants;
• Legislators are invading
the classroom. A bill before
the Kansas Senate controls
how students are taught, including sex education material;
• And tougher rules for
public assistance have been
enacted, oppressing the poor
with cuts to food stamps, help
with childcare expenses and
temporary assistance.
LET’S TAKE the last issue
first.
Because of new tax laws,
the wealthiest are enjoying a
2 percent cut in their income
taxes. For the average millionaire, that means a reduction of about $21,087 a year.
Meanwhile, our poorest
have witnessed an increase of
1.3 percent in taxes because
of the elimination of certain
credits, including those for
purchases of food, for expenditures on rent and for what
they paid in childcare.
Today, Kansas is in com-

INCOME
TAXES
Make them fair.

ELECTIONS
Encourage
participation.

pany with Mississippi and
Alabama as the only states
that tax food sales and do not
provide any relief for such a
tax for low-income residents.
Up until 2012, families with
incomes of less than $17,700
could claim $91 per family
member to offset the sales tax
they paid on food. For a single
parent family with two children, that could mean the difference of $246, or 2 percent
of their annual income.
If Kansas were to expand
Medicaid, about 80,000 would
receive health care coverage,
many for the first time. Realize as federal taxpayers we
are paying for the expansion
enjoyed in other states. As
of Friday afternoon, Kansas
has said goodbye to $85 million in federal aid since Jan.
1, had we participated in the
expansion. To see the current
tally, go to http://howmuchhasksleftonthetable.com.
As for voting rights, Kobach is intent on keeping
Kansas as a frontrunner

in discrimination. Kobach
“won” a ruling for Kansas
Wednesday when a federal
judge said we could enforce
a two-tiered voting system
requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
Kobach maintains the extra
paper trail is necessary to
combat illegal citizens from
voting. Since Kobach began
this campaign, seven cases
of voter fraud have been determined in Kansas over the
last 13 years. Seven. “An epidemic,” he proclaims.
YOU DON’T have to be a
bleeding heart liberal to feel
Kansas is straying from the
polestar that has long guided
us to value education, to have
compassion for our poor, to
have a fair tax system, and to
promote democracy.
Increasingly, we are letting
ourselves be led by politicians who don’t have our best
interests at heart.
Moral Mondays should be
every day.

Area woman on minimal means
saved from financial ruin

ACA health plan
a lifesaver for local
For one Allen County woman John Robertson is as much
a knight in shining armor as
was Sir Galahad.
Robertson, under auspices
of Thrive Allen County, works
as a navigator to help people
obtain health insurance coverage through the Affordable
Care Act Marketplace
The woman, who prefers
not to be identified, retired
not long ago with every intention of living quietly in her
little corner of the world. She
qualified for a Social Security allotment of about $900 a
month. That’s not a great deal
but with no debt and no dependents, she figured it would be
sufficient.
The catch arose when she
went shopping for health insurance, which previously
had been a perk of her employment. The best she could
do on the private market was
a policy with monthly premiums of $540, which ate up 60
percent of her monthly Social
Security payment.
She was forced to cash in
a modest IRA in January to
make her new insurance payments. It will be another two
years before she qualifies for
Medicare.
Because Kansas has not
expanded its Medicaid guidelines, the woman is caught in
what is called the Medicaid
Gap.
Her current income of
$10,800 is below the federal
poverty level of $11,700 for an
individual, the benchmark
that qualifies individuals to
receive tax credits to help pay
for health insurance under
the new ACA.
The thinking on the federal
government’s part was that
for those who live on less than
the federal poverty guideline,
their states would enroll them
into their Medicaid programs,
which the feds have agreed to
help pay for an expanded program.
Kansas’ current Medicaid

At
Week’s End
Bob Johnson

program is especially restrictive because its benefits apply
only to those who have a disability, are pregnant, or who
have dependants.
For this single woman, no
matter how destitute, she
would never qualify for Medicaid benefits.
If Kansas were to expand
Medicaid, those restrictions
would no longer apply. The
only consideration for benefits would be one’s income.
The woman, thus, was
forced into a terrible situation.
This is where Robertson’s
magic came into play.
“Let’s see what we can do,”
he said, when the distressed
woman came to his office
Wednesday evening.
Seems the money being
withdrawn from her IRA
policy can be considered taxable income and when added
to her Social Security income
nudges her up to the federal
poverty level. She now qualifies for tax credits under the
Affordable Care Act.
Her new premium is $110
a month. Remember, it was
$540, and without the Affordable Care Act would have remained at that level.
The new plan also includes
dental insurance and deductibles as good or better than
she had before.
I DOUBT the woman’s situation differs much from many
others in Allen County.
ACA enrollment remains
open through the end of
March. Take advantage. You
may be just as ecstatic with
the results as this woman was.

Letter to the editor
Dear editor,

Why do the gay people insist on everyone knowing
they’re gay, like it is something to celebrate? Kansas
deserves a shiny gold star
for not crumbling under the
pressure to allow gay marriages. Laws can be changed
or new laws written and gay

marriages will still be wrong.
If gay marriages are approved, what’s next? Grandma marrying a granddaughter? Two brothers marrying
for tax purposes, insurance,
welfare, or Social Security?
Sound ridiculous? Gay
marriages and every Tom,
Dick and Harry carrying a

loaded gun ready to shoot
anyone who looks cross-eyed
at them used to sound ridiculous. (Still does, actually).
If a person chooses to become a chef, they should expect there to be heat in the
kitchen.
Bonnie Johnson,
Iola, Kan.

Alookbackintime
40 Years Ago
Week of March 23, 1974

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt
Industries, Inc., has been sold
to Smithco, Inc., of Wayne,
Pa. Smithco has been the
exclusive sales representative for Humboldt Industries
since it began local operations in 1965. No changes are
planned in the local operation and Cecil Carey will continue as president and plant
manager.
*****
Fifteen production workers have been called back
to IMP Boats here to build
cruisers and other special
models for which orders have
been received, Jim Fitzpat-

rick, president, told the Register this morning.
*****
The Iola post office has a
coin-operated
duplicating
machine, which has been
placed in the lobby. Clyde
Sharp, Iola postmaster, said
the Iola office is one of four
in southeast Kansas outfitted
with one of the copiers under
a new customer-convenience
program being tested by the
Postal Service. The copies
cost 10 cents each.
*****
All seats for the Count
Basie Concert at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center tonight
have been sold, Dale Creitz,
center director, said this

morning. Even the tickets for
the folding chairs placed in
the auditorium to provide additional seating are gone.
*****
Roe Spencer, owner of
Spencer and Sons clothing
store at 10 S. Washington,
will open a new store, The
Clothesout, in about two
weeks in the Iola State Bank
building at the intersection
of Jefferson and Madison
streets. Spencer said that
the boys’ and men’s clothing
merchandise will include
overruns, mill ends and distressed merchandise ranging
in price from $1 to $50. The
store will be open from 1 to 5
p.m. seven days a week.

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Engagements
Rochelle McGhee and Jerald Smart
Rochelle
Nicole
McGee, Westphalia,
and Jerald Dustin
Smart, Iola, will
come together in
marriage on June
7, 2014 at Lil’ Toledo
Lodge and Event
Center.
Rochelle is the
daughter of Darren
and Cindy McGhee,
Westphalia. She is
the granddaughter
of Gareld and Shirley McGhee, Colony,
and Ron and Wilma
Atchison, Princeton.
She
graduated
from
Anderson
County High School
in 2009. She received
her associate degree

Jenna Sigg and Brandon Hesse
Jenna
Sigg,
Iola,
and Brandon Hesse,
Iola, will be married
on April 26, 2014, at
St.
John’s
Catholic
Church, Iola.
Jenna is the daughter of Mitchell and the
late Peggy Sigg, Iola.
She is the granddaughter of Mary and the late
Donald Martin, Iola,
John Sigg, Iola, and
Linda Sigg, Iola.
She graduated from
Iola High School in

2009 and from Allen
Community College in
2011. She is employed
at Sigg Motors.
Brandon is the son
of Brad and Cindy
Hesse. He is the grandson of Gene and Elva
Dean Smith, Gas, the
late Francis Hesse, St.
Marys, and the late
Kathy Hesse, St. Marys.
He graduated from
Iola High School in
2004 and is employed at
Sigg Motors.

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in animal science
from Allen Community College and then
attended Fort Hays
State
University
where she received a
bachelor’s degree in
general agriculture.
Jerald is the son
of Jerald and Vicki
Smart, Scipio. He is
the grandson of Marvin and Rita Stanley,
Elsmore, and Bob
and Thelma Culler,
Colony.
He graduated from
Iola High School in
2003. He has been
with BNSF Railroad
since 2007 in the
track maintenance
department.

Misty Thompson and
Anders Wibskov
Misty Dawn Thompson,
Lawrence, and Anders Holger
Berry Wibskov, Lawrence, will
unite in marriage on May 14,
2014, in Positano, Italy.
Misty is the daughter of
Daniel and Jackie Thompson, Iola. She is an Iola High
School and University of Kansas graduate. She is employed
at PGi, Olathe.
Anders is the son of Jorgen
Wibskov, Farmington, Mo.,
and Krista Goering, Lawrence.
He is a graduate of North St.
Francois High School, Bonne
Terre, Mo., and the University
of Kansas. He is employed at
the Oread Hotel, Lawrence.
The couple will host a reception at the Oread Hotel on
May 31.

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Emily Callahan and Joshua Tidd
Joshua is the son of the
late Julie Tidd and David
and Laura Tidd, Iola.
He graduated from Iola
High School in 2008 and
Pittsburg State University in 2012 with a bachelor of music degree in
trombone performance.
He will graduate in May
from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln with a
Master of Music in trombone performance. He
is currently employed
by the University of Nebraska as a teaching assistant.

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The parents of Emily Callahan and Joshua
Tidd announce their
engagement and upcoming marriage on May 17,
2014.
Emily is the daughter
of Richard and Alicia
Callahan, Palmyra, Neb.
She will graduate in May
from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln with a
bachelor of music degree
in piano performance.
She was home-schooled
K-12 and graduated in
2010.
She is self-employed as a piano teacher.

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Due to the Register’s early deadline Friday,
scores from the NCAA Tournament involving Kansas, Kansas State and Wichita State
were unavailable for today’s issue.

Saturday, March 22, 2014

B

THE TEAM TIME FORGOT
Humboldt’s 1963-64 basketball team featured one of the most remarkable starting lineups ever in southeast Kansas.
But a heartbreaking loss in the state championship game left the Cubs as only a footnote in local sports lore.
By RICHARD LUKEN
The Iola Register

T

here’s a reason it’s
called March Madness, with its rich
history of euphoria
and heartbreak.
History books are filled with
stories of the most powerful
Goliaths being slain by seemingly outmatched Davids.
A cold night shooting, untimely foul trouble or a fateful
bounce or two can undo just
about anyone.
Just ask Bill Stange, one of
the starters on a team many
consider among the greatest
high school basketball squads
ever to lace ’em up in these
parts.
That 50 years have passed
since the 1964 Cubs took the
court has done little to dampen Stange’s memories of the
star-crossed, magical season.
But for others, including
the participants, memories of
the ’64 Cubs have gone by the
wayside.
“You know, I hadn’t thought
about that game in years,”
said Steve Honeycutt, one of
the senior stalwarts who later
became a fan favorite and twoyear all-conference player at
Kansas State University.
“It’s been so long, I don’t
remember a lot,” said Craig
Adams, another starter who
grew up to become a teacher,
coach and administrator at
Wellsville High School.
QUITE A LINEUP

Hopes were high for Humboldt entering the winter of
1963, thanks in large part to
Humboldt’s dynamic trio of
seniors.
Earl Seyfert, Steve Honeycutt and Joe Henrichs all
played key roles the previous
year as the Cubs advanced to
the Class A State Tournament
and were returning for their
senior seasons.
At 6 feet, 8 inches, Seyfert
dominated the court on both
offense and defense.
At 6-3, Henrichs also had
plenty of length to cause
match-up problems, particularly because of his shooting.
“Joe was such a great shooter,” Stange said. “He could hit
from almost anywhere.”
Henrichs was limited in his
scoring only because of the

era in which he played. Remember, the 3-point line was
decades away from being enacted at the high school ranks.
“I’d have loved to have seen
how many points he would
have gotten with the 3-point
line,” Stange said.
If defenses converged on
those two, the 6-foot Honeycutt was more than able to
pick up the slack at guard.
While he, too, was capable
of scoring in bunches, Honeycutt’s greatest attribute was
at the other end.
“I loved playing defense,”
Honeycutt said.
While his teammates con-

trolled the game with their
height, Honeycutt utilized his
quickness and speed to harass
opposing guards.
Rounding out the starting lineup was Stange, at 6-1,
another front line player in
there to do the unsung work
— pull in key rebounds, set
screens for Seyfert to do his
handiwork and get an occasional putback. Likewise, Adams helped steady the ship at
guard when the need arose.
“Every
starting
lineup
needs a weak link,” Adams
joked. “I was it.”
Equally lanky Ronnie Owens, 6-3, came off the bench

when a teammate tired.
“We were confident,” Honeycutt said. “We thought we
could have a special season
that year.”
SOMETHING SPECIAL

The 1963-64 season was the
capstone for the youths who
had forged friendships as
youths growing up together in
small town America.
Honeycutt,
Henrichs,
Stange and Adams all grew
up within a few blocks of
each other, playing baseball,
basketball or whatever sport
beckoned. Seyfert moved to
town by the time he was 10

and joined the group.
They were more than
skilled athletes.
“Steve and Earl’s fathers
were pastors,” Stange said.
“Joe’s father might as well
have been.”
They also excelled in the
classroom. By the time they
graduated, Henrichs was
Humboldt’s
valedictorian;
Seyfert the salutatorian. Honeycutt and Stange were National Honor Society students.
“I’m pretty sure I’m the only
one in the group who ever said
a cuss word,” Stange joked.
The Cubs gave fans a
glimpse of their potential during their eighth-grade year
when they rolled through the
season with a 9-0 record in
1959-60.
“We knew then we had a
pretty special group,” said
Honeycutt.
“There weren’t many 6-2
middle-schoolers like Earl
was.”
Sure enough, Seyfert almost
immediately earned a starting
spot for the Cubs when he entered high school. Henrichs
and Honeycutt joined him in
the starting lineup by their junior years.
The ’63 Cubs made it to
the state playoffs, where they
were eliminated in the first
round by Buhler, 55-41.
When Stange and Adams
joined the starting lineup the
next season, the team was
ready to roll.
The Cubs won their first
15 games by an average of 28
points. Only once during the
regular season did a team stay
within single digits.
Humboldt’s players were
soft-spoken on and off the
court, happy to let their games
do their talking.
Stange remembered entering the regional tournament
against Garnett, a team Humboldt had defeated twice during the regular season by an
average of 29.
“But Garnett’s players let
it be known they weren’t that
impressed with our team,”
Stange recalled. “They said
they were going to beat us at
regionals.”
Instead, Humboldt limited
Garnett to 26 points in their regional opener, winning by 32.
See HISTORY | Page B3

John Prohaska took the loss in a 12-3 defeat,
despite allowing only one run in five innings,
with 11 strikeouts. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Forgive Val McLean if he heads
to the pharmacy for mass quantities
of antivenom in the near future.
His Allen Community College
Red Devils have been plenty snakebit on the diamond this week.
One day after losing a gut-wrenching 7-5 decision to Butler, the Red
Devils returned home Thursday for a
doubleheader against Independence.
The visiting Pirates battered Allen
pitching to the tune of 12-3 and 22-11.
The losses keep Allen winless in
Jayhawk Conference Eastern Division play at 0-14. The Red Devils are
5-19 overall.
“We have to regroup,” McLean
said. “Wednesday’s loss was a
heartbreaker, and in our second
game Thursday we walked 11 guys
and had five or six errors. You can’t
be successful playing that way.”
Wednesday’s loss may have been
the most painful of them all.
Starter Chase Cunningham was
working on a no-hitter through 7
1/3 innings, with ACC on top 5-0,

when it fell apart in a hurry.
Butler’s Logan Beard grounded
a one-out single up the middle to
break up the no-hitter. An infield
single followed, prompting McLean
to call on Logan Bausch for relief.
Allen’s relieving corps couldn’t
stop the bleeding.
A walk, double and passed ball
cut Allen’s lead to 5-3 before two
more walks loaded the bases with
two out. A fielding error by Allen’s
Camron Myers allowed two runs
to score and tie the game. Michael
Bird, who opened the inning with a
ground-out, broke the tie with a frozen rope to center.
Allen got a two-out walk in the
top of the ninth but a ground ball
ended the game.
Two Butler errors staked the Red
Devils to a 2-0 lead. Kyle Foster had an
RBI single and Drew Walden smacked
a sacrifice fly for the second run.
Kyle Foster tripled to lead off
the top of the eighth, and scored on
Austin Griffin’s RBI single. Trever
Kreifel scored on a wild pitch. Camdon Myers pushed the lead to 5-0
with an RBI single.

Foster went 3-for-4 with a triple,
while Sean Maruo had a pair of singles. Trey Francis, Griffin and Myers also singled.
Cunningham allowed two hits
and three walks in 7 1/3 innings
with five strikeouts. Bausch surrendered a hit and two walks, while
Chris McPherson gave up a hit and
walk in his relief stint.
JOHN PROHASKA looked to give
Allen a lift in his start in Thursday’s
opener. He delivered in dominating
fashion, striking out 11 in five innings and allowed just two hits, but
exited trailing 1-0.
Butler tacked on two in the top
of the sixth to lead 3-0 before Drew
Walden closed the gap with a windaided two-run home run. The wind
didn’t add to distance, which was
well clear of the left field fence.
Rather, it pushed the hooking foul
ball just into fair territory as it
passed the foul pole.
Myers followed Walden’s blast
with a double, still with nobody
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The Garnett win set
up a showdown with
Gardner, the host school
for the regional tournament.
“Gardner had just
built its new high school,
and they were giving us
a tour before the game,”
Stange recalled.
Their guide, Gardner’s principal, took the
players through a large
cafeteria that doubled
as a banquet hall. It was
there, Stange said, the
principal told the Cub
players that Gardner
planned to host its celebratory dinner after
winning the regional
tournament.
“We didn’t say a
word,” Stange said.
Instead, the Cubs
rolled that night over
Gardner, winning 83-36.
The game led to a humorous encounter years
later for Adams as he
started his teaching career in Wellsville after
he introduced himself to
another young teacher.
“Not that Humboldt,”
his
coworker
cried.
“You’ve gotta be kidding
me.”
Adams learned the
Gardner coaches were
so confident of victory
they prematurely called
off classes the following
Monday to celebrate.
“Sorry we ruined their
fun,” Adams laughed.
The Cubs secured a
return trip to the state
tournament in Hutchinson with a 37-27 win
over Bonner Springs.
They opened state competition with a 56-46 win
over Colby and a 67-56
romp over Haven to set
up a showdown with an
old nemesis, Buhler.
“Buhler had lost quite
a few players from the
season before,” Stange
said. “They weren’t supposed to be as good.”
Buhler
certainly
wasn’t supposed to be
the one facing Humboldt for the title. That
honor was designated
for Beloit, and their

“We played a
good team that
day. I’d have loved
to have won it,
but we just got
beat.”
— Bill Stange, on
Humboldt’s 51-49
loss to Buhler in the
1964 state title game

Bill Stange, left, and Craig Adams today. REGISTER/STEVEN SCHWARTZ

head coach, Gene Keady.
Beloit and Humboldt
were tapped prior to the
tournament as the cofavorites. Buhler’s 72-68
semifinal win changed
those plans.
THE GAME

Buhler had no match
for Humboldt’s height,
with only one player
standing taller than 6-1.
But the Crusaders
were anything but small.
“They were a bunch
of farm boys,” Stange
said. “They were thick,
powerful. We were all
skinny and slow.”
The game started on
an ominous note for
Humboldt.
Three early fouls sent
Seyfert to the bench by
the midpoint of the second quarter, depriving
the Cubs of their biggest
offensive and defensive
weapon. In his stead,
Henrichs picked up the
slack, draining jumper
after jumper to keep
things close.
How close?
A
Hutchinson
reporter noted the game
featured 11 ties and so
many lead changes, “you
needed a calculator to
keep count.”
The score was tied
at 47-all when Buhler’s
John Gaddert drove in
for a layup to give the
Crusaders a 49-47 lead
with just over two minutes remaining.
While memories have

faded for many involved
— “I really don’t recall a
lot about the game,” Adams said — those final
two minutes are like yesterday for Stange.
After a Cub timeout,
Honeycutt found himself open in the corner
with 1:36 left. His jumper
tied the score at 49-49.
Buhler was content
to hold the ball for the
final shot, patiently moving the ball around the
perimeter until guard
Rod Franz found Bruce
Ediger gliding under the
basket for the layup —
51-49.
Six seconds remained
as Humboldt called timeout with the hopes of
getting up a final shot.
Head coach Ed Hankins’ instructions were
simple.
“He told us that somebody needed to put it up
for Seyfert,” Stange said.
Honeycutt raced upcourt, passing to Stange
on the far wing.
“I was probably 15 to
18 feet from the basket,
just a bit farther than
what I was used to shooting,” Stange said.
But with time running
short, he had no choice.
With nary a moment’s
hesitation — and Seyfert camped beneath the
basket as instructed —
Stange let it fly.
The ball hit the rim,
bounced up, then hit the
rim a second time.
The second bounce

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was crucial.
“It would have been
a tough shot, but Earl
could have gotten the rebound for the putback,”
Stange said. “But the
second bounce meant he
was off balance.”
Seyfert could only deflect the ball as the final
horn sounded.
Buhler’s
fans
swarmed the court to
celebrate;
Humboldt’s
players and fans sat in
stunned silence.
Stange saw cheerleaders and other supporters
wiping away tears.
He wasn’t as distraught.
“We played a good
team that day,” he said.
“I’d have loved to have
won it, but we just got
beat.”
Honeycutt wasn’t as
diplomatic.
“I was mad,” he said.
“We should have won.
We didn’t play to our
strength, which was
Earl.”
STAYING TOGETHER

The end of the basketball season didn’t mean
the end of the close-knit
bond between Humboldt’s quintet.
Honeycutt and Seyfert
shared the court many
times after that, as teammates at Kansas State.
Three Cubs, in fact,
signed up to play basketball for Tex Winter’s Wildcats. Seyfert
picked K-State over such
schools as the University of Kansas and John
Wooden’s UCLA juggernaut. (He owns the
distinction of being invited by both Winter and
Wooden to attend the
NCAA
Tournament’s
Final Four showdown
between Kansas State
and UCLA that spring
in Kansas City, Mo. Seyfert picked KSU shortly
after that, even though
Wooden’s Bruins won
the game and one game
later the NCAA title.)
Honeycutt admits he
was an afterthought to
the Kansas State recruiters.
“Tex came down to see
Earl, and that’s how he
saw me play,” Honeycutt
said. “I was only about
5-11, 145 pounds, and I
wasn’t a very good ball
handler.”
But Honeycutt showed

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enough raw ability and
court savvy to draw a
scholarship offer. He redshirted his sophomore
season at KSU, and used
the year away from the
court to advantage.
“I worked primarily
on dribbling with my left
hand,” he said. “It got to
the point that I was primarily left-handed with
the ball the rest of my
career.”
Like at Humboldt,
both left a legacy at Kansas State. Seyfert and
Honeycutt were voted
team co-captains in the
1967-68 season, with
Honeycutt averaging a
team-leading 14.4 points
per game, and Seyfert
just behind at 13.8.
Honeycutt earned allBig 8 honors his junior
and senior years. Seyfert
was equally impressive
in the classroom. He was
named an academic AllAmerican following his
senior year.
“It was fun, knowing I could hold my own
against some of the best
players in the country,”
Honeycutt said, where
he faced future NBA
stars such as Kansas’ Jo
Jo White and Nebraska’s
Stu Lance.
Neither Seyfert nor
Honeycutt played professionally,
although
both were drafted by
NBA teams. Seyfert was
picked in the 13th round
of the 1968 draft by the
Philadelphia 76ers. Honeycutt was drafted in the
17th round a year later
by Seattle.
Honeycutt eschewed
reporting to camp because of an illness that
struck him late his senior season.
“I dropped quite a bit
of weight and was too
weak to even try out,” he
said. “Besides that, I had
a four-year commitment
to Air Force on my horizon.”
Likewise, Seyfert entered the military after
his days in Manhattan.
He played for a select
Army team sporting

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such teammates as current Duke head coach
Mike Krzyzewski.
He
played
professionally overseas in the
Philippines for a couple
of years before hanging
up his sneakers and entering the professional
world. Seyfert became
president and chief executive officer of Maestas Glass Company in
Albuquerque, N.M.
Attempts to reach Seyfert for the article went
unanswered.
LOSING A FRIEND

Joe Henrichs played
on Kansas State’s freshman team — freshmen
weren’t allowed to play
varsity those years —
before giving up basketball to focus solely on his
studies as a sophomore.
Tragedy struck on a
wet, foggy morning on
Feb. 27, 1966.
Henrichs was a passenger on a Cessna 150,
piloted by a KSU classmate and amateur pilot
that crashed near a farm
just south of Emporia.
Both Henrichs and the
pilot, 19-year-old Douglas Peters of Ellinwood,
were killed.
Henrichs had celebrated his 20th birthday
three weeks earlier.
They were returning to Manhattan after
spending the weekend
with Henrichs’ family in
Humboldt.
“It was such a shock
— so sad,” Honeycutt
said. “I remember as a
kid riding to my brother’s basketball games
with Joe and his parents.
He played the organ at
church. He was a good,
good young man.”
THE TEAM THAT
TIME FORGOT

The bond between the
old teammates slowly
dissipated through the
years.
After graduating from
Pittsburg State, Stange
stuck around southeast
Kansas. He was among
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What became a legendary career for Earl
Seyfert at Humboldt
High School began in a
Wally Pipp sort of way.
Pipp, baseball fans
with a penchant for history will remember,
showed up at Yankee
Stadium one day in 1925
with a headache. The
Yanks’ first baseman
was given the day off
by Manager Miller Huggins, with Lou Gehrig
starting in his place.
Gehrig went on to play

At
Week’s End

uled to start at center,
was sidelined because
of an illness. Seyfert, a
tall and promising freshman, took his place.
Seyfert
scored
14
points (according to the
writer’s memory) and
grabbed about as many
rebounds. He went on
to play 78 games, scored
1,251 points and led
Humboldt to a second
place finish in the state
tournament in 1964, a
loss that still nags at Cub
faithful.

Bob Johnson

2,130 consecutive games
at first.
In the first game of the
1960-61 high school season, Humboldt opened
at Burlington. Dan Hardwood, a senior sched-

History: Cubs reflect on ’64
Continued from B3

the first employees at
Iola’s Berg Manufacturing (later Haldex) plant
before moving to Tramec Corporation when
it opened. He then was
among the founders of
Precision Pump before
retiring. Stange now
runs a hunting lodge
northwest of Humboldt.
Adams
moved
to
Wellsville, where he
taught and later became
an administrator. His
son, Josh, was hired last
year as Wellsville High
principal. His daughter
teaches third grade. Retired, he lives in Olathe.
Both Stange and Adams remained involved
with youth athletics af-

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younger brother, Phil —
the school has not had a
ceremony to honor the
1964 squad.
The team was briefly
recalled by long-time Cub
faithful during the spring
of 2013 when last year’s
Humboldt squad rolled
through the basketball
season undefeated. Last
year’s Humboldt team
eventually broke the ’64
Cubs’ school record winning streak en route to a
second-place finish at the
state playoffs.
Honeycutt is hopeful
to see his former teammates again.
“I’d love to have us get
together,” he said. “It’d
be great to talk about old
times.”

ter their playing days.
Stange officiated basketball and football for
more than 18 years. Adams coached for several
years in addition to his
teaching duties.
After college, Honeycutt fulfilled his military
obligation with the Air
Force before a 35-year
career with Conoco Phillips. Now retired, he
lives in Magnolia, Texas.
“It was probably at
our 20-year reunion that
we last saw each other,”
Honeycutt said. “And
that was 30 years ago.”
Unlike
Humboldt’s
1969 state champion
squad — which featured
Earl’s younger brother,
Lynn, and Honeycutt’s

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Doctor: Injured
reliever ‘lucky guy’
GOODYEAR,
Ariz.
(AP) — Cincinnati Reds
closer Aroldis Chapman
underwent a 2½-hour
operation Thursday to
repair a broken bone
above his left eye but has
no other serious injuries
after being hit in the
face by a line drive in a
spring training game.
Team medical director Dr. Timothy Kremchek said Chapman
could begin throwing off
a mound in six to eight
weeks, a timetable that
could get him back in
games in late May. The
left-hander with a fastball that has reached 105
mph could start exercising and throwing on flat
ground in a couple of
weeks, Kremchek said.
He called Chapman “a
very lucky guy.”
The surgery was performed by cranial facial
plastic surgeon Dr. Ed
Joganic.
Kremchek said earlier
that a metal plate would
be inserted in the bone
above Chapman’s left

eyebrows and would remain there permanently.
Chapman has a mild
concussion and no injury to his eye.
“He’s feeling better
and he has some pain
management. We’re optimistic that he is going
to be on the mend,” Reds
manager Bryan Price
said after meeting with
players Thursday morning at the team’s spring
training facility. “Obviously, we’ll stay in touch.
We will make sure we
follow the process as we
continue to get familiar
with the injury itself. We
will let him know how
much support he has and
that we care about him.”
Hopefully, we will see
him here very soon.”
Cincinnati
catcher
Brayan Pena, a fellow
Cuban and Chapman’s
close friend, was one of
several Reds players who
visited the injured pitcher Wednesday night
and spoke to him on the
phone Thursday morning.

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out, but a strikeout, a liner
and Levi Ashmoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grounder to third â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he was out by
a catâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whisker â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to end the
threat.
Butler broke the game
open with nine runs in the
top of the seventh against a
pair of Allen relievers.
THE GRIZZLIESâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bats
stayed alive in Game 2. They
scored in every inning but
the seventh.
Butler led 7-0 before Chase
Egelstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grand slam in the
third pulled Allen to within
7-5.
But Independence responded with five in the

top of the fourth, one in the
fifth, and five in the sixth to
put the last nail in the Devilsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; coffin.
The Grizzlies racked up
17 hits and were issued 11
walks, while the Red Devils
committed six errors.
Stats
from
Thursday
were incomplete â&#x20AC;&#x201D; scoring
plays from Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two-run
ninth inning were unavailable â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but we know Francis had three singles, while
Egelston homered, Griffin
had a triple and Cole Slusser
and Maruo each doubled.
Ashmore added a single.
The Red Devils return to
action today with a doubleheader at Independence.

HOUSTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
The Houston Texans
are nearing a deal to
trade
quarterback
Matt Schaub to the
Oakland Raiders, a
person familiar with
the negotiations said
Friday.
The person spoke to
The Associated Press
on the condition of
anonymity because the
deal was not yet complete.
Schaub was Houstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s starter from 2007
until last season, when
he was benched in favor of Case Keenum

after a terrible start to
the year. The Texans
were expected to contend for a Super Bowl
last season, but instead
became
the
NFLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
worst team, sinking
to 2-14, which tied the
worst record in franchise history.
It was clear after last
season that Schaub
didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a future in
Houston, but his departure looked to be
imminent on Thursday night when the
Texans signed veteran
quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.

NO SECOND THOUGHTS
One streak is over and another continues at Hendrick Motorsports. Dale Earnhardt Jr.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s streak of consecutive top-two finishes
came to a thundering halt at Bristol Motor Speedway, where NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Most Popular Driver finished 24th in the No. 88 Chevrolet.
Earnhardt opened the season by winning
the
Daytona 500, then scored
second-place finishes at
Phoenix and Las Vegas.
For those first three outings, the 39-year-old driver
had an average finish of 1.3.
Now add in the 24th at Bristol and Earnhardtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s average
finish in 2014 is 7.0.
Jeff Gordon, who drives
the No. 24 Chevy, kept
his streak going at Bristol.
Gordon has scored four
consecutive top-10 finishes
since the season opened at
Daytona. And just to show how
stats can be skewed, Gordon
now has a better finishing average than Earnhardt. Gordonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
average finish in 2014 is 6.25.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole team did an awesome
job,â&#x20AC;? Gordon said after his seventhplace effort at Bristol. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a
really good race car at different times
throughout the night. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crazy, when
we went back racing after the rain
delay we just completely wore
out the left-front tire in just
like 20 or 30 laps. I mean
we were going backwards
in a hurry. Thankfully
for that competition
caution, but we fixed
that and got the car
better, and drove up
into the top five, I was
pretty happy.â&#x20AC;?
Earnhardt? No comment.

side by side in the closing laps in a heated battle for
10th-place honors. Larson prevailed in his No. 42
Chevy while Dillon was 11th. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crazy to think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
kind of a disappointing finish for the way we ran
for most of the race, but all in all it was a good
race,â&#x20AC;? Larson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a lot of fun racing
with Austin there at the end. I definitely had
to get up on the wheel and get the elbows up
and try not to make any mistakes.â&#x20AC;? Now each
rookie has one top-10 finish. Dillon was ninth in
the Daytona 500.

KENSETHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ROUGH RIDE
Matt Kenseth led a race-high 165
laps at Bristol, but by the time the
race ended, his No. 20 Toyota
was battered and bent, and he
finished 13th. Kenseth was rearended at high speed during a
caution when Timmy Hill,
driving the No. 33 Chevy,
blasted his rear bumper.
Later in the race,
Kenseth got into â&#x20AC;&#x153;the
marblesâ&#x20AC;? and tagged
the wall a couple
of times before
regaining control
of his Camry.
When asked
â&#x20AC;&#x153;How was the
race?â&#x20AC;? Kenseth
could only shrug.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we
have enough time for
me to tell you all about
it.â&#x20AC;? What about the hit
from Hill? â&#x20AC;&#x153;He hit me going like 4,000 miles an hour,â&#x20AC;?
Kenseth said.

AP/ROSS D. FRANKLIN

Jeff Gordon hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t finished
outside the top 10 since
November. A big pile of
points could come in handy in
September, but a win would
be nicer.

ROOKIE RUNNERS
The NASCAR Sprint
Cup Series Rookie of the
Year battle was defined at
Bristol when Kyle Larson
and Austin Dillon raced

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Mixing Cheez-Its with Frosted
Flakes? Now thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something
that deserves a caution flag.
Is it time to do something about
bump-drafting in the flag stand?
Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assume NASCAR officials will
take a wait-and-see approach to this
one. If it happens again, expect drastic
measures: Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right, a press release
announcing immediate changes.

What triggered this possibility?
Sunday night at Bristol, with the
500th and (long-awaited) final lap
approaching, someone in the flag
stand apparently leaned into an override switch that turned on the trackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
caution lights. Once the error was
uncovered, but before NASCAR could
gather everyone back together for a
return to green, the rains returned and
Carl Edwards carried his big smile to
Victory Lane. Right now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be viewed
as a freak accident, but if it happens
again, expect NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Boys in R&D
to develop an officially licensed Caution Light Underride Switch to go in
the tower, where it will take precedence over the Override Switch. Or
something like that.

Can you get me excited about
Fontana this week?
Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your good news: NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
great â&#x20AC;&#x153;unforeseenâ&#x20AC;? doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know
geography. It can show its face at any
longitude or latitude. The unpredictable wins, tumbles and personality
clashes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all part of NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s timehonored recipe â&#x20AC;&#x201D; often happen when
(and where) you least expect them.

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Barbara Bell

Vehicles
burglarized

Barbara A. Bell, 76, of Kansas City, Kan., passed
away on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, at Richmond
Healthcare and Rehab in Richmond.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Monday at
the Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel, Garnett, with burial at 1:30 p.m. at the Johnson County
Memorial Garden, Overland Park.
Memorial contributions may be made to the
American Cancer Society.

Carlyle news
The Carlyle Country
Club met last Thursday in Humboldt. Jeanice Cress was hostess.
There were 14 members
and two guests present,
Greta Ladd and Levi
Miewes.
The group met at the
Wes Dewey Art Studio
and saw Collin Haire’s
glass blowing projects.
From there they went
to the Humboldt library
for a business meeting
and refreshments.
Pastor Steve Traw’s
message on Sunday at
the Carlyle Presbyterian Church was “The
Passover, A Beginning.”
Those celebrating birthdays are Travis Smith
on March 21 and Phyllis Loomis on Sunday.
Anniversaries are Don
and Ella Britt, March
17, Glen and Patty Herschberger, March 17, and
Linda and Melvin Guenther, March 20. A fellowship dinner followed the
service. Bible study is at
3 p.m. Tuesday.
Alma
Herchberger

Joanne
McIntyre
365-2829
received word her sisterin-law, Elizabeth Yoder,
was a patient in Olathe
Medical Center with a
broken hip. She is now
in Garnett in a nursing
home and doing well.
Greg and Jackie McIntyre held a birthday
party for their granddaughter,
Zoey
McIntyre, who turned 2 on
March 6. Those attending were her parents,
Zack and Kady McIntyre, rural Yates Center; Ashton and Brandon
Birk, Gridley; Steve and
Rita Porzio, Kincaid;
Judy, Bruce and Ryan
Cochran, Dustin Smart
and Rochelle McGhee,
Jim Henson, Iola; and
Joanna McIntyre and
Levi Sauerssig, Gridley.

Burn ban is lifted
With calmer weather
conditions
forecast,
the burn ban in Allen
County was lifted Friday.
Sheriff Bryan Murphy announced suspension of the ban.
Murphy encouraged
farmers, especially, to

be careful when burning fields.
With a controlled
burn, a call to dispatch
headquarters, 365-1460,
and local firefighters
should be made, Murphy added, “so we’ll
know what’s going on.”

Polio: Eradicated
Continued from A1

Statistics to do with Rotary are staggering.
Potter said the organization has 34,644 clubs in
more than 200 countries
and 1.2 million members, who speak 102 different languages.
The organization has
clubs for high school
students (Interact) and
younger adults (Rotaract), as well for volunteers (Rotary Community Corps).
Rotary began in 1905
in Chicago when Paul
Harris — its most notable founder — and three
professional
friends
formed a club to become better acquainted.
The name came from
them rotating meetings
among their offices.
Iola’s Rotary Club
dates to 1917, and, as
are others, is comprised
of business and professional people who put

“service above self.”
Today’s Iola club has 48
members.
“We’re here to serve
the community,” Potter
said.
The club for years has
helped with waste paper
drives, and this summer
will sponsor a car show
at the Allen County Fair
and a barbecue cookoff.
Club members have
picked up trash along
nearby highways and
often volunteer to help
with many local projects. The Southwind
Trail’s shelter three
miles south of Iola was a
Rotary project.
The Iola club also has
sent members to Chile
and Easter Island to construct simple but effective eyeglasses for people who otherwise would
go without and has been
involved in water purification projects.

Threats reported

Holly
Schomaker,
Iola, reported to police
officers several things
were stolen from her
vehicle while it was
parked near her house
Sunday in the 800 block
of
North
Jefferson
Street.
On Monday Jamie
Wilson reported an
undisclosed amount
of cash was stolen
from her vehicle in
the 800 block of North
Street.
Also on Monday Erin
Splechter, 29, Iola, reported her vehicle was
broken into in the 800
block of North Sycamore Street. Her checkbook,
miscellaneous
paperwork and an undisclosed amount of
money were taken.
Leo King Wood, 49,
Iola, reported tools, tool
boxes, and fishing poles
were stolen from his
vehicle March 13 in the
200 block of North Elm
Street.

On Monday, Jacqueline Layton, 36, Iola,
told officers she had
received
threatening
phone calls. A suspect
was named.

Drug arrest made
On Tuesday, James
Williams, 19, Iola, was
arrested for possession
of certain hallucinogenic drugs, possession
of drug paraphernalia,
and no liability insurance following a traffic
stop in the 600 block of
North Cottonwood.

Playground
fire reported
On Wednesday, officers responded to a
fire on the playground
at Lincoln Elementary
School. Damage was
minimal.

dence on Wednesday.
On March 13, William
Krone, Iola, told officers
his residence was burglarized in the 700 block
of East Street. Tools
were stolen from the garage.

Arrests made
John Cox Jr. was
arrested for an Allen
County District Court
warrant on Wednesday.
On March 13, Summer Salzwedel, 29, Iola,
was arrested for a Chanute warrant.
Kimberly Lorrainne
Sigler was arrested on
Sunday for driving under the influence of
alcohol, not reporting
an accident of an unattended vehicle and not
rendering aid or giving
information.
David Lomon was
arrested on March 14
for being a pedestrian
under the influence of
alcohol, after a disturbance on South State
Street.
Amy Callaway was

arrested on March 15
for a Chanute warrant.
Jeffry Stanford was
arrested for domestic
battery and Mikeal J.
Stanford was arrested
for aggravated assault
following an incident on
Scott Street on March
15.
Vanetta Cummings,
23, Iola, and Devon
Simpson, 18, Iola, were
arrested for furnishing
alcohol to minors. Several juveniles also were
taken into custody following an incident in
the 600 block of North
Chestnut Street.

Bicycle found
Officers recovered a
Next 20-inch boys bicycle in a ditch at Willow
and Kansas Drive.

Bicycle stolen
On March 15, Ronda
Poffenbarger, 56, Iola,
reported a brown and
tan colored Rebel Mongoose bicycle stolen
from her property in
the 800 block of Wilson
Lane.

Parts, Hazardous
Materials, Wet or
Lead Based Paint,
Ammunition,
Demolition or
Construction
Debris.... If any of
these items are mixed
with the regular
debris the City will
not pick up at that
address.
If you have any
questions call:
365-4903 or 365-4910

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Rally: Advocating for expansion
Continued from A1

support something that
may affect them in the
future,â&#x20AC;? Chase said.
The issue is highly
partisan and polarized,
they said, but more so in
the Statehouse than on
a local level. Masterson
and Chase, Democrat and
Republican, respectively,
said the issue is more
moral than political â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at
least thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how it should
be viewed.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it blurs the
boundaries, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a Republican,â&#x20AC;? Chase said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The
most important issue is
the moral issue.â&#x20AC;?
ACCORDING to a report from the Kansas
Health Institute, around
80,000 Kansas fall into the
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Medicaid gapâ&#x20AC;? that has
been created by the lack
of expansion. When the
Affordable Care Act was
drafted, Masterson said,
it was designed to rely on

cooperation between the
state and federal government. When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
ACA was constitutional,
they also stipulated that
states could not be forced

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are leaving the
poorest of the poor out
there to fend for themselves,â&#x20AC;? Chase said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I
canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe we would do
this to our most vulnerable.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just in Topeka. I think most
middle class and wealthy people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
realize how hard it is. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heartbreaking.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Georgia Masterson

to expand the Medicaid
funding.
This is where â&#x20AC;&#x153;the gapâ&#x20AC;?
comes into play.
Without the expansion,
single, childless adults are
not eligible for Medicaid
despite their income and
adults with children are
only eligible if they earn
less than 32 percent of the
poverty level â&#x20AC;&#x201D; around
$630 a month for a threeperson household, according to the KHI report.

Masterson said there is
a misconception that the
issues are not as urgent
as people make them out
to be.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just in Topeka. I think most middle
class and wealthy people
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize how hard it
is,â&#x20AC;? Masterson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
heartbreaking.â&#x20AC;?
And the impoverished
are not the only affected
parties. Chase said Allen
County Regional Hospi-

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tal, now a county-funded
entity, is facing dramatic
reductions in funding
from the federal government. The guidelines
of the ACA anticipated
Medicaid coverage to increase, reducing the support needed from the federal government. Without
Medicaid expansion the
hospital will not see an increase in coverage, while
experiencing a reduction
in funding.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The potential for that
will be devastating for our
hospital,â&#x20AC;? Masterson said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just the hospital, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Allen County,
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our own tax dollars,â&#x20AC;?
Chase added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It does hurt
people in this community,
not just the people who
canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get health insurance.â&#x20AC;?
All anyone can do is
voice their opinion, both
said, and hope that someone can see their side of
the story, Masterson said.

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Children: Cases are most difficult, important to charge
Continued from A1

The law states that endangerment of a child is a situation where they “may” be in
dangerous situation:
Endangering a child is
knowingly and unreasonably
causing or permitting a child
under the age of 18 years to be
placed in a situation in which
the child’s life, body or health
may be endangered.
The next level of charge is
“aggravated endangerment,”
which essentially replaces the
“may be endangered” with “is
endangered.”
Bowie said numerous types
of situations can qualify as an
endangerment case. Recently
in the district court, cases
have come up involving drug
charges and driving under
the influence. If a child is surrounded by a drug-making environment — like a methamphetamine lab — Bowie said
oftentimes
endangerment
charges will be filed. However,
the level of severity can differ
if the drugs or other dangerous objects are readily available to the child or kept away
from them.
Phelan said in a circumstance where a driver is under
the influence with children in
the vehicle, parent or not, endangerment charges will be
filed by the county attorney.
It’s environmentally driven,” Phelan said.
But the possibilities don’t
end there. Bowie said there
can even be considerations
if the parents knowingly allow their underage children
to be involved with criminal
or dangerous activity — some
parents may not even make
the connection.
Something both attorneys
made very clear, endangerment and abuse are two different charges, but are closely
related.
“They are next to each oth-

er in the statutes,” Bowie said.
An abuse charge is filed
only if physical harm comes
to the child, and Phelan said
the endangerment charges
are more common than abuse
charges.
“It’s not one of the most
common charges,” Phelan
said. “Most people want to be
good parents.”
A DECISION on whether
to charge a defendant is only

trict court judges for children
who need care during abuse
or neglect and in some cases
child endangerment,” Aimeé
Daniels, executive director of
CASA said.
Daniels said neglect of a
child is when a parent fails to
provide for a child. This could
be unsanitary conditions, not
providing proper clothing,
not taking the child to the doctor and refusing services for a
child’s disability. Neglect is a

The trauma of taking a child out of the
home is significant. And if there’s not a family member for them to stay with, they will
end up with strangers.
— Allen County Attorney Wade Bowie

the first step in the decision
making process, and any action from that point forward
can and will have an impact
on the child.
“The trauma of taking a
child out of the home is significant,” Bowie said. “And if
there’s not a family member
for them to stay with, they
will end up with strangers.”
If danger is imminent, both
attorneys said the child must
be removed from the home as
soon as possible — what they
called a “child in need of care
case,” which is separate from
endangerment or abuse. One
does not require the other.
The end goal is what is best
for the child, Phelan pointed
out, not to remove the child
from the home.
“Reintegration is the case’s
goal, we want the child to be
back home,” he said.
CASA, Court Appointed
Special Advocates, becomes
a part of this process to help
the child.
“We’re appointed by dis-

civil court case and usually
stems from poverty, she said.
“The majority of parents
don’t neglect their children on
purpose,” Daniels said. “With
that being said, sometimes
they don’t seek employment
or have a drug problem.”
Neglect is usually reported
by educators, relatives or daycare providers. In such cases,
a petition is drafted as a civil
matter. CASA reviews all cases but only take on the most
complicated and serious matters.
Warner said the police respond immediately to a child
in need of care. They will remove them from the home,
and place them in police protective custody, and the advocates take the reins from
there.
“We match advocates to a
case,” Daniels said. “Some advocates prefer working with a
specific age group or some are
uncomfortable with certain
cases. We try to meet the advocate’s needs as well.”

CASA advocates try to make
the child as comfortable as
possible and eventually help
the child return home. There
are 18 advocates at CASA currently.
“There’s a common misconception that we take kids out
of the home for no reason,”
Bowie added.
The advocate meets with
the child face to face at least
once a month. Most advocates
visit more than once and they
attend all the hearings in
court. There are also family
planning meetings that help
the family so the child can return home.
“They stick with them all
the way through until the
end,” Daniels said. “It creates
a close relationship with the
children and the advocate.”
If the problems can be fixed
immediately, Bowie said he
may refer the case to the Department of Children and
Family Services (DCF) before
any further action is taken.
But, oftentimes removal from
the home is the best option
and the child will be placed
into police protective care for
up to 72 hours. He said if there
is endangerment, that can
mean there are “multiple issues in the home” from which
the child needs to be removed.
AS BOWIE pointed out, it is
not the court’s duty to remove
a child from their home, and
they have just as much of a
duty to not file a charge if the
situation does not demand it
— and that can be the most
difficult part.
“Educating parents is part
of it,” Bowie said. The line between endangerment and other things can be blurry, and
they need to know as much
as possible for both of their
sakes.
“I don’t have to file a charge
in each situation,” he said.
“We want to help maintain

the family unit.”
Daniels said there are ways
to keep that family unit together. The Department of
Children and Family Services
does have a voluntary program for parenting skills and
classes to give them advice.
The program teaches the family how to budget and explains
what benefits they have available to them. The Douglas
County Citizens Committee
on Alcoholism also has a contract with the DCF to assist a
family before problems arise.
“They can go into the home
and work with the family and
talk about poverty, child behavior and resources,” Daniels said. “If more people
sought help there would be
less endangerment.”
Both Bowie and Phelan
agreed that voluntary action
on the parents’ part is the optimal resolution, and something that can be monitored
by the courts if need be. But,
they also said they will not
hesitate to act if they need to.
“We don’t want to do it,”
Bowie said. “But we will if we
have to.”

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Moral Mondays: A time to redirect our compass
Kansas had its own Moral
Monday, but it was on Tuesday.
In Georgia, protestors
flooded the state capitol Monday against the Legislature’s
refusal to expand Medicaid
guidelines as provided in the
Affordable Care Act. It was
the ninth consecutive Monday activists have convened
at the capitol in a movement
they call Moral Monday, an
offshoot of Truthful Tuesdays begun last year in South
Carolina.

Susan
Lynn
Register
editor

Topeka
experienced
a
much milder version of protests Tuesday when about
200, including several Iolans,
went to the state capitol in
hopes of conveying to legislators the advantages of expanding Medicaid offerings.
If supporting Medicaid
expansion somehow aligns
them with President Obama,

EDUCATION
Restore funding
to cuts enacted.
no Kansas Republican will
come within a mile of the
measure.
As with our Southern
neighbors, Kansas now belongs to the right wing. As
never before, an ultra-conservative governor and Legislature are suppressing citizens’
rights in Kansas.
To wit:
• Kansas children are being deprived of an adequate
education through underfinanced schools. Funding is
so low the Kansas Supreme
Court declared it unconstitutional;
• Access to affordable
health care is being denied
through cumbersome new
regulations and fees imposed
on the health care navigators
as well as the state’s own refusal to promote the federal
program;
• The freedom to vote is
being restricted; 11,000 voter
registrations hang in limbo
because of Kansas Secretary
of State Kris Kobach’s cam-

MEDICAID
Yes! Expand
services.
paign against immigrants;
• Legislators are invading
the classroom. A bill before
the Kansas Senate controls
how students are taught, including sex education material;
• And tougher rules for
public assistance have been
enacted, oppressing the poor
with cuts to food stamps, help
with childcare expenses and
temporary assistance.
LET’S TAKE the last issue
first.
Because of new tax laws,
the wealthiest are enjoying a
2 percent cut in their income
taxes. For the average millionaire, that means a reduction of about $21,087 a year.
Meanwhile, our poorest
have witnessed an increase of
1.3 percent in taxes because
of the elimination of certain
credits, including those for
purchases of food, for expenditures on rent and for what
they paid in childcare.
Today, Kansas is in com-

INCOME
TAXES
Make them fair.

ELECTIONS
Encourage
participation.

pany with Mississippi and
Alabama as the only states
that tax food sales and do not
provide any relief for such a
tax for low-income residents.
Up until 2012, families with
incomes of less than $17,700
could claim $91 per family
member to offset the sales tax
they paid on food. For a single
parent family with two children, that could mean the difference of $246, or 2 percent
of their annual income.
If Kansas were to expand
Medicaid, about 80,000 would
receive health care coverage,
many for the first time. Realize as federal taxpayers we
are paying for the expansion
enjoyed in other states. As
of Friday afternoon, Kansas
has said goodbye to $85 million in federal aid since Jan.
1, had we participated in the
expansion. To see the current
tally, go to http://howmuchhasksleftonthetable.com.
As for voting rights, Kobach is intent on keeping
Kansas as a frontrunner

in discrimination. Kobach
“won” a ruling for Kansas
Wednesday when a federal
judge said we could enforce
a two-tiered voting system
requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
Kobach maintains the extra
paper trail is necessary to
combat illegal citizens from
voting. Since Kobach began
this campaign, seven cases
of voter fraud have been determined in Kansas over the
last 13 years. Seven. “An epidemic,” he proclaims.
YOU DON’T have to be a
bleeding heart liberal to feel
Kansas is straying from the
polestar that has long guided
us to value education, to have
compassion for our poor, to
have a fair tax system, and to
promote democracy.
Increasingly, we are letting
ourselves be led by politicians who don’t have our best
interests at heart.
Moral Mondays should be
every day.

Area woman on minimal means
saved from financial ruin

ACA health plan
a lifesaver for local
For one Allen County woman John Robertson is as much
a knight in shining armor as
was Sir Galahad.
Robertson, under auspices
of Thrive Allen County, works
as a navigator to help people
obtain health insurance coverage through the Affordable
Care Act Marketplace
The woman, who prefers
not to be identified, retired
not long ago with every intention of living quietly in her
little corner of the world. She
qualified for a Social Security allotment of about $900 a
month. That’s not a great deal
but with no debt and no dependents, she figured it would be
sufficient.
The catch arose when she
went shopping for health insurance, which previously
had been a perk of her employment. The best she could
do on the private market was
a policy with monthly premiums of $540, which ate up 60
percent of her monthly Social
Security payment.
She was forced to cash in
a modest IRA in January to
make her new insurance payments. It will be another two
years before she qualifies for
Medicare.
Because Kansas has not
expanded its Medicaid guidelines, the woman is caught in
what is called the Medicaid
Gap.
Her current income of
$10,800 is below the federal
poverty level of $11,700 for an
individual, the benchmark
that qualifies individuals to
receive tax credits to help pay
for health insurance under
the new ACA.
The thinking on the federal
government’s part was that
for those who live on less than
the federal poverty guideline,
their states would enroll them
into their Medicaid programs,
which the feds have agreed to
help pay for an expanded program.
Kansas’ current Medicaid

At
Week’s End
Bob Johnson

program is especially restrictive because its benefits apply
only to those who have a disability, are pregnant, or who
have dependants.
For this single woman, no
matter how destitute, she
would never qualify for Medicaid benefits.
If Kansas were to expand
Medicaid, those restrictions
would no longer apply. The
only consideration for benefits would be one’s income.
The woman, thus, was
forced into a terrible situation.
This is where Robertson’s
magic came into play.
“Let’s see what we can do,”
he said, when the distressed
woman came to his office
Wednesday evening.
Seems the money being
withdrawn from her IRA
policy can be considered taxable income and when added
to her Social Security income
nudges her up to the federal
poverty level. She now qualifies for tax credits under the
Affordable Care Act.
Her new premium is $110
a month. Remember, it was
$540, and without the Affordable Care Act would have remained at that level.
The new plan also includes
dental insurance and deductibles as good or better than
she had before.
I DOUBT the woman’s situation differs much from many
others in Allen County.
ACA enrollment remains
open through the end of
March. Take advantage. You
may be just as ecstatic with
the results as this woman was.

Letter to the editor
Dear editor,

Why do the gay people insist on everyone knowing
they’re gay, like it is something to celebrate? Kansas
deserves a shiny gold star
for not crumbling under the
pressure to allow gay marriages. Laws can be changed
or new laws written and gay

marriages will still be wrong.
If gay marriages are approved, what’s next? Grandma marrying a granddaughter? Two brothers marrying
for tax purposes, insurance,
welfare, or Social Security?
Sound ridiculous? Gay
marriages and every Tom,
Dick and Harry carrying a

loaded gun ready to shoot
anyone who looks cross-eyed
at them used to sound ridiculous. (Still does, actually).
If a person chooses to become a chef, they should expect there to be heat in the
kitchen.
Bonnie Johnson,
Iola, Kan.

Alookbackintime
40 Years Ago
Week of March 23, 1974

HUMBOLDT — Humboldt
Industries, Inc., has been sold
to Smithco, Inc., of Wayne,
Pa. Smithco has been the
exclusive sales representative for Humboldt Industries
since it began local operations in 1965. No changes are
planned in the local operation and Cecil Carey will continue as president and plant
manager.
*****
Fifteen production workers have been called back
to IMP Boats here to build
cruisers and other special
models for which orders have
been received, Jim Fitzpat-

rick, president, told the Register this morning.
*****
The Iola post office has a
coin-operated
duplicating
machine, which has been
placed in the lobby. Clyde
Sharp, Iola postmaster, said
the Iola office is one of four
in southeast Kansas outfitted
with one of the copiers under
a new customer-convenience
program being tested by the
Postal Service. The copies
cost 10 cents each.
*****
All seats for the Count
Basie Concert at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center tonight
have been sold, Dale Creitz,
center director, said this

morning. Even the tickets for
the folding chairs placed in
the auditorium to provide additional seating are gone.
*****
Roe Spencer, owner of
Spencer and Sons clothing
store at 10 S. Washington,
will open a new store, The
Clothesout, in about two
weeks in the Iola State Bank
building at the intersection
of Jefferson and Madison
streets. Spencer said that
the boys’ and men’s clothing
merchandise will include
overruns, mill ends and distressed merchandise ranging
in price from $1 to $50. The
store will be open from 1 to 5
p.m. seven days a week.

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Engagements
Rochelle McGhee and Jerald Smart
Rochelle
Nicole
McGee, Westphalia,
and Jerald Dustin
Smart, Iola, will
come together in
marriage on June
7, 2014 at Lil’ Toledo
Lodge and Event
Center.
Rochelle is the
daughter of Darren
and Cindy McGhee,
Westphalia. She is
the granddaughter
of Gareld and Shirley McGhee, Colony,
and Ron and Wilma
Atchison, Princeton.
She
graduated
from
Anderson
County High School
in 2009. She received
her associate degree

Jenna Sigg and Brandon Hesse
Jenna
Sigg,
Iola,
and Brandon Hesse,
Iola, will be married
on April 26, 2014, at
St.
John’s
Catholic
Church, Iola.
Jenna is the daughter of Mitchell and the
late Peggy Sigg, Iola.
She is the granddaughter of Mary and the late
Donald Martin, Iola,
John Sigg, Iola, and
Linda Sigg, Iola.
She graduated from
Iola High School in

2009 and from Allen
Community College in
2011. She is employed
at Sigg Motors.
Brandon is the son
of Brad and Cindy
Hesse. He is the grandson of Gene and Elva
Dean Smith, Gas, the
late Francis Hesse, St.
Marys, and the late
Kathy Hesse, St. Marys.
He graduated from
Iola High School in
2004 and is employed at
Sigg Motors.

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in animal science
from Allen Community College and then
attended Fort Hays
State
University
where she received a
bachelor’s degree in
general agriculture.
Jerald is the son
of Jerald and Vicki
Smart, Scipio. He is
the grandson of Marvin and Rita Stanley,
Elsmore, and Bob
and Thelma Culler,
Colony.
He graduated from
Iola High School in
2003. He has been
with BNSF Railroad
since 2007 in the
track maintenance
department.

Misty Thompson and
Anders Wibskov
Misty Dawn Thompson,
Lawrence, and Anders Holger
Berry Wibskov, Lawrence, will
unite in marriage on May 14,
2014, in Positano, Italy.
Misty is the daughter of
Daniel and Jackie Thompson, Iola. She is an Iola High
School and University of Kansas graduate. She is employed
at PGi, Olathe.
Anders is the son of Jorgen
Wibskov, Farmington, Mo.,
and Krista Goering, Lawrence.
He is a graduate of North St.
Francois High School, Bonne
Terre, Mo., and the University
of Kansas. He is employed at
the Oread Hotel, Lawrence.
The couple will host a reception at the Oread Hotel on
May 31.

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Emily Callahan and Joshua Tidd
Joshua is the son of the
late Julie Tidd and David
and Laura Tidd, Iola.
He graduated from Iola
High School in 2008 and
Pittsburg State University in 2012 with a bachelor of music degree in
trombone performance.
He will graduate in May
from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln with a
Master of Music in trombone performance. He
is currently employed
by the University of Nebraska as a teaching assistant.

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The parents of Emily Callahan and Joshua
Tidd announce their
engagement and upcoming marriage on May 17,
2014.
Emily is the daughter
of Richard and Alicia
Callahan, Palmyra, Neb.
She will graduate in May
from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln with a
bachelor of music degree
in piano performance.
She was home-schooled
K-12 and graduated in
2010.
She is self-employed as a piano teacher.

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THE TEAM TIME FORGOT
Humboldt’s 1963-64 basketball team featured one of the most remarkable starting lineups ever in southeast Kansas.
But a heartbreaking loss in the state championship game left the Cubs as only a footnote in local sports lore.
By RICHARD LUKEN
The Iola Register

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here’s a reason it’s
called March Madness, with its rich
history of euphoria
and heartbreak.
History books are filled with
stories of the most powerful
Goliaths being slain by seemingly outmatched Davids.
A cold night shooting, untimely foul trouble or a fateful
bounce or two can undo just
about anyone.
Just ask Bill Stange, one of
the starters on a team many
consider among the greatest
high school basketball squads
ever to lace ’em up in these
parts.
That 50 years have passed
since the 1964 Cubs took the
court has done little to dampen Stange’s memories of the
star-crossed, magical season.
But for others, including
the participants, memories of
the ’64 Cubs have gone by the
wayside.
“You know, I hadn’t thought
about that game in years,”
said Steve Honeycutt, one of
the senior stalwarts who later
became a fan favorite and twoyear all-conference player at
Kansas State University.
“It’s been so long, I don’t
remember a lot,” said Craig
Adams, another starter who
grew up to become a teacher,
coach and administrator at
Wellsville High School.
QUITE A LINEUP

Hopes were high for Humboldt entering the winter of
1963, thanks in large part to
Humboldt’s dynamic trio of
seniors.
Earl Seyfert, Steve Honeycutt and Joe Henrichs all
played key roles the previous
year as the Cubs advanced to
the Class A State Tournament
and were returning for their
senior seasons.
At 6 feet, 8 inches, Seyfert
dominated the court on both
offense and defense.
At 6-3, Henrichs also had
plenty of length to cause
match-up problems, particularly because of his shooting.
“Joe was such a great shooter,” Stange said. “He could hit
from almost anywhere.”
Henrichs was limited in his
scoring only because of the

era in which he played. Remember, the 3-point line was
decades away from being enacted at the high school ranks.
“I’d have loved to have seen
how many points he would
have gotten with the 3-point
line,” Stange said.
If defenses converged on
those two, the 6-foot Honeycutt was more than able to
pick up the slack at guard.
While he, too, was capable
of scoring in bunches, Honeycutt’s greatest attribute was
at the other end.
“I loved playing defense,”
Honeycutt said.
While his teammates con-

trolled the game with their
height, Honeycutt utilized his
quickness and speed to harass
opposing guards.
Rounding out the starting lineup was Stange, at 6-1,
another front line player in
there to do the unsung work
— pull in key rebounds, set
screens for Seyfert to do his
handiwork and get an occasional putback. Likewise, Adams helped steady the ship at
guard when the need arose.
“Every
starting
lineup
needs a weak link,” Adams
joked. “I was it.”
Equally lanky Ronnie Owens, 6-3, came off the bench

when a teammate tired.
“We were confident,” Honeycutt said. “We thought we
could have a special season
that year.”
SOMETHING SPECIAL

The 1963-64 season was the
capstone for the youths who
had forged friendships as
youths growing up together in
small town America.
Honeycutt,
Henrichs,
Stange and Adams all grew
up within a few blocks of
each other, playing baseball,
basketball or whatever sport
beckoned. Seyfert moved to
town by the time he was 10

and joined the group.
They were more than
skilled athletes.
“Steve and Earl’s fathers
were pastors,” Stange said.
“Joe’s father might as well
have been.”
They also excelled in the
classroom. By the time they
graduated, Henrichs was
Humboldt’s
valedictorian;
Seyfert the salutatorian. Honeycutt and Stange were National Honor Society students.
“I’m pretty sure I’m the only
one in the group who ever said
a cuss word,” Stange joked.
The Cubs gave fans a
glimpse of their potential during their eighth-grade year
when they rolled through the
season with a 9-0 record in
1959-60.
“We knew then we had a
pretty special group,” said
Honeycutt.
“There weren’t many 6-2
middle-schoolers like Earl
was.”
Sure enough, Seyfert almost
immediately earned a starting
spot for the Cubs when he entered high school. Henrichs
and Honeycutt joined him in
the starting lineup by their junior years.
The ’63 Cubs made it to
the state playoffs, where they
were eliminated in the first
round by Buhler, 55-41.
When Stange and Adams
joined the starting lineup the
next season, the team was
ready to roll.
The Cubs won their first
15 games by an average of 28
points. Only once during the
regular season did a team stay
within single digits.
Humboldt’s players were
soft-spoken on and off the
court, happy to let their games
do their talking.
Stange remembered entering the regional tournament
against Garnett, a team Humboldt had defeated twice during the regular season by an
average of 29.
“But Garnett’s players let
it be known they weren’t that
impressed with our team,”
Stange recalled. “They said
they were going to beat us at
regionals.”
Instead, Humboldt limited
Garnett to 26 points in their regional opener, winning by 32.
See HISTORY | Page B3

John Prohaska took the loss in a 12-3 defeat,
despite allowing only one run in five innings,
with 11 strikeouts. REGISTER/RICHARD LUKEN

Forgive Val McLean if he heads
to the pharmacy for mass quantities
of antivenom in the near future.
His Allen Community College
Red Devils have been plenty snakebit on the diamond this week.
One day after losing a gut-wrenching 7-5 decision to Butler, the Red
Devils returned home Thursday for a
doubleheader against Independence.
The visiting Pirates battered Allen
pitching to the tune of 12-3 and 22-11.
The losses keep Allen winless in
Jayhawk Conference Eastern Division play at 0-14. The Red Devils are
5-19 overall.
“We have to regroup,” McLean
said. “Wednesday’s loss was a
heartbreaker, and in our second
game Thursday we walked 11 guys
and had five or six errors. You can’t
be successful playing that way.”
Wednesday’s loss may have been
the most painful of them all.
Starter Chase Cunningham was
working on a no-hitter through 7
1/3 innings, with ACC on top 5-0,

when it fell apart in a hurry.
Butler’s Logan Beard grounded
a one-out single up the middle to
break up the no-hitter. An infield
single followed, prompting McLean
to call on Logan Bausch for relief.
Allen’s relieving corps couldn’t
stop the bleeding.
A walk, double and passed ball
cut Allen’s lead to 5-3 before two
more walks loaded the bases with
two out. A fielding error by Allen’s
Camron Myers allowed two runs
to score and tie the game. Michael
Bird, who opened the inning with a
ground-out, broke the tie with a frozen rope to center.
Allen got a two-out walk in the
top of the ninth but a ground ball
ended the game.
Two Butler errors staked the Red
Devils to a 2-0 lead. Kyle Foster had an
RBI single and Drew Walden smacked
a sacrifice fly for the second run.
Kyle Foster tripled to lead off
the top of the eighth, and scored on
Austin Griffin’s RBI single. Trever
Kreifel scored on a wild pitch. Camdon Myers pushed the lead to 5-0
with an RBI single.

Foster went 3-for-4 with a triple,
while Sean Maruo had a pair of singles. Trey Francis, Griffin and Myers also singled.
Cunningham allowed two hits
and three walks in 7 1/3 innings
with five strikeouts. Bausch surrendered a hit and two walks, while
Chris McPherson gave up a hit and
walk in his relief stint.
JOHN PROHASKA looked to give
Allen a lift in his start in Thursday’s
opener. He delivered in dominating
fashion, striking out 11 in five innings and allowed just two hits, but
exited trailing 1-0.
Butler tacked on two in the top
of the sixth to lead 3-0 before Drew
Walden closed the gap with a windaided two-run home run. The wind
didn’t add to distance, which was
well clear of the left field fence.
Rather, it pushed the hooking foul
ball just into fair territory as it
passed the foul pole.
Myers followed Walden’s blast
with a double, still with nobody
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The Garnett win set
up a showdown with
Gardner, the host school
for the regional tournament.
“Gardner had just
built its new high school,
and they were giving us
a tour before the game,”
Stange recalled.
Their guide, Gardner’s principal, took the
players through a large
cafeteria that doubled
as a banquet hall. It was
there, Stange said, the
principal told the Cub
players that Gardner
planned to host its celebratory dinner after
winning the regional
tournament.
“We didn’t say a
word,” Stange said.
Instead, the Cubs
rolled that night over
Gardner, winning 83-36.
The game led to a humorous encounter years
later for Adams as he
started his teaching career in Wellsville after
he introduced himself to
another young teacher.
“Not that Humboldt,”
his
coworker
cried.
“You’ve gotta be kidding
me.”
Adams learned the
Gardner coaches were
so confident of victory
they prematurely called
off classes the following
Monday to celebrate.
“Sorry we ruined their
fun,” Adams laughed.
The Cubs secured a
return trip to the state
tournament in Hutchinson with a 37-27 win
over Bonner Springs.
They opened state competition with a 56-46 win
over Colby and a 67-56
romp over Haven to set
up a showdown with an
old nemesis, Buhler.
“Buhler had lost quite
a few players from the
season before,” Stange
said. “They weren’t supposed to be as good.”
Buhler
certainly
wasn’t supposed to be
the one facing Humboldt for the title. That
honor was designated
for Beloit, and their

“We played a
good team that
day. I’d have loved
to have won it,
but we just got
beat.”
— Bill Stange, on
Humboldt’s 51-49
loss to Buhler in the
1964 state title game

Bill Stange, left, and Craig Adams today. REGISTER/STEVEN SCHWARTZ

head coach, Gene Keady.
Beloit and Humboldt
were tapped prior to the
tournament as the cofavorites. Buhler’s 72-68
semifinal win changed
those plans.
THE GAME

Buhler had no match
for Humboldt’s height,
with only one player
standing taller than 6-1.
But the Crusaders
were anything but small.
“They were a bunch
of farm boys,” Stange
said. “They were thick,
powerful. We were all
skinny and slow.”
The game started on
an ominous note for
Humboldt.
Three early fouls sent
Seyfert to the bench by
the midpoint of the second quarter, depriving
the Cubs of their biggest
offensive and defensive
weapon. In his stead,
Henrichs picked up the
slack, draining jumper
after jumper to keep
things close.
How close?
A
Hutchinson
reporter noted the game
featured 11 ties and so
many lead changes, “you
needed a calculator to
keep count.”
The score was tied
at 47-all when Buhler’s
John Gaddert drove in
for a layup to give the
Crusaders a 49-47 lead
with just over two minutes remaining.
While memories have

faded for many involved
— “I really don’t recall a
lot about the game,” Adams said — those final
two minutes are like yesterday for Stange.
After a Cub timeout,
Honeycutt found himself open in the corner
with 1:36 left. His jumper
tied the score at 49-49.
Buhler was content
to hold the ball for the
final shot, patiently moving the ball around the
perimeter until guard
Rod Franz found Bruce
Ediger gliding under the
basket for the layup —
51-49.
Six seconds remained
as Humboldt called timeout with the hopes of
getting up a final shot.
Head coach Ed Hankins’ instructions were
simple.
“He told us that somebody needed to put it up
for Seyfert,” Stange said.
Honeycutt raced upcourt, passing to Stange
on the far wing.
“I was probably 15 to
18 feet from the basket,
just a bit farther than
what I was used to shooting,” Stange said.
But with time running
short, he had no choice.
With nary a moment’s
hesitation — and Seyfert camped beneath the
basket as instructed —
Stange let it fly.
The ball hit the rim,
bounced up, then hit the
rim a second time.
The second bounce

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was crucial.
“It would have been
a tough shot, but Earl
could have gotten the rebound for the putback,”
Stange said. “But the
second bounce meant he
was off balance.”
Seyfert could only deflect the ball as the final
horn sounded.
Buhler’s
fans
swarmed the court to
celebrate;
Humboldt’s
players and fans sat in
stunned silence.
Stange saw cheerleaders and other supporters
wiping away tears.
He wasn’t as distraught.
“We played a good
team that day,” he said.
“I’d have loved to have
won it, but we just got
beat.”
Honeycutt wasn’t as
diplomatic.
“I was mad,” he said.
“We should have won.
We didn’t play to our
strength, which was
Earl.”
STAYING TOGETHER

The end of the basketball season didn’t mean
the end of the close-knit
bond between Humboldt’s quintet.
Honeycutt and Seyfert
shared the court many
times after that, as teammates at Kansas State.
Three Cubs, in fact,
signed up to play basketball for Tex Winter’s Wildcats. Seyfert
picked K-State over such
schools as the University of Kansas and John
Wooden’s UCLA juggernaut. (He owns the
distinction of being invited by both Winter and
Wooden to attend the
NCAA
Tournament’s
Final Four showdown
between Kansas State
and UCLA that spring
in Kansas City, Mo. Seyfert picked KSU shortly
after that, even though
Wooden’s Bruins won
the game and one game
later the NCAA title.)
Honeycutt admits he
was an afterthought to
the Kansas State recruiters.
“Tex came down to see
Earl, and that’s how he
saw me play,” Honeycutt
said. “I was only about
5-11, 145 pounds, and I
wasn’t a very good ball
handler.”
But Honeycutt showed

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enough raw ability and
court savvy to draw a
scholarship offer. He redshirted his sophomore
season at KSU, and used
the year away from the
court to advantage.
“I worked primarily
on dribbling with my left
hand,” he said. “It got to
the point that I was primarily left-handed with
the ball the rest of my
career.”
Like at Humboldt,
both left a legacy at Kansas State. Seyfert and
Honeycutt were voted
team co-captains in the
1967-68 season, with
Honeycutt averaging a
team-leading 14.4 points
per game, and Seyfert
just behind at 13.8.
Honeycutt earned allBig 8 honors his junior
and senior years. Seyfert
was equally impressive
in the classroom. He was
named an academic AllAmerican following his
senior year.
“It was fun, knowing I could hold my own
against some of the best
players in the country,”
Honeycutt said, where
he faced future NBA
stars such as Kansas’ Jo
Jo White and Nebraska’s
Stu Lance.
Neither Seyfert nor
Honeycutt played professionally,
although
both were drafted by
NBA teams. Seyfert was
picked in the 13th round
of the 1968 draft by the
Philadelphia 76ers. Honeycutt was drafted in the
17th round a year later
by Seattle.
Honeycutt eschewed
reporting to camp because of an illness that
struck him late his senior season.
“I dropped quite a bit
of weight and was too
weak to even try out,” he
said. “Besides that, I had
a four-year commitment
to Air Force on my horizon.”
Likewise, Seyfert entered the military after
his days in Manhattan.
He played for a select
Army team sporting

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such teammates as current Duke head coach
Mike Krzyzewski.
He
played
professionally overseas in the
Philippines for a couple
of years before hanging
up his sneakers and entering the professional
world. Seyfert became
president and chief executive officer of Maestas Glass Company in
Albuquerque, N.M.
Attempts to reach Seyfert for the article went
unanswered.
LOSING A FRIEND

Joe Henrichs played
on Kansas State’s freshman team — freshmen
weren’t allowed to play
varsity those years —
before giving up basketball to focus solely on his
studies as a sophomore.
Tragedy struck on a
wet, foggy morning on
Feb. 27, 1966.
Henrichs was a passenger on a Cessna 150,
piloted by a KSU classmate and amateur pilot
that crashed near a farm
just south of Emporia.
Both Henrichs and the
pilot, 19-year-old Douglas Peters of Ellinwood,
were killed.
Henrichs had celebrated his 20th birthday
three weeks earlier.
They were returning to Manhattan after
spending the weekend
with Henrichs’ family in
Humboldt.
“It was such a shock
— so sad,” Honeycutt
said. “I remember as a
kid riding to my brother’s basketball games
with Joe and his parents.
He played the organ at
church. He was a good,
good young man.”
THE TEAM THAT
TIME FORGOT

The bond between the
old teammates slowly
dissipated through the
years.
After graduating from
Pittsburg State, Stange
stuck around southeast
Kansas. He was among
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The Wally Pipp syndrome
What became a legendary career for Earl
Seyfert at Humboldt
High School began in a
Wally Pipp sort of way.
Pipp, baseball fans
with a penchant for history will remember,
showed up at Yankee
Stadium one day in 1925
with a headache. The
Yanks’ first baseman
was given the day off
by Manager Miller Huggins, with Lou Gehrig
starting in his place.
Gehrig went on to play

At
Week’s End

uled to start at center,
was sidelined because
of an illness. Seyfert, a
tall and promising freshman, took his place.
Seyfert
scored
14
points (according to the
writer’s memory) and
grabbed about as many
rebounds. He went on
to play 78 games, scored
1,251 points and led
Humboldt to a second
place finish in the state
tournament in 1964, a
loss that still nags at Cub
faithful.

Bob Johnson

2,130 consecutive games
at first.
In the first game of the
1960-61 high school season, Humboldt opened
at Burlington. Dan Hardwood, a senior sched-

History: Cubs reflect on ’64
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the first employees at
Iola’s Berg Manufacturing (later Haldex) plant
before moving to Tramec Corporation when
it opened. He then was
among the founders of
Precision Pump before
retiring. Stange now
runs a hunting lodge
northwest of Humboldt.
Adams
moved
to
Wellsville, where he
taught and later became
an administrator. His
son, Josh, was hired last
year as Wellsville High
principal. His daughter
teaches third grade. Retired, he lives in Olathe.
Both Stange and Adams remained involved
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younger brother, Phil —
the school has not had a
ceremony to honor the
1964 squad.
The team was briefly
recalled by long-time Cub
faithful during the spring
of 2013 when last year’s
Humboldt squad rolled
through the basketball
season undefeated. Last
year’s Humboldt team
eventually broke the ’64
Cubs’ school record winning streak en route to a
second-place finish at the
state playoffs.
Honeycutt is hopeful
to see his former teammates again.
“I’d love to have us get
together,” he said. “It’d
be great to talk about old
times.”

ter their playing days.
Stange officiated basketball and football for
more than 18 years. Adams coached for several
years in addition to his
teaching duties.
After college, Honeycutt fulfilled his military
obligation with the Air
Force before a 35-year
career with Conoco Phillips. Now retired, he
lives in Magnolia, Texas.
“It was probably at
our 20-year reunion that
we last saw each other,”
Honeycutt said. “And
that was 30 years ago.”
Unlike
Humboldt’s
1969 state champion
squad — which featured
Earl’s younger brother,
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Doctor: Injured
reliever ‘lucky guy’
GOODYEAR,
Ariz.
(AP) — Cincinnati Reds
closer Aroldis Chapman
underwent a 2½-hour
operation Thursday to
repair a broken bone
above his left eye but has
no other serious injuries
after being hit in the
face by a line drive in a
spring training game.
Team medical director Dr. Timothy Kremchek said Chapman
could begin throwing off
a mound in six to eight
weeks, a timetable that
could get him back in
games in late May. The
left-hander with a fastball that has reached 105
mph could start exercising and throwing on flat
ground in a couple of
weeks, Kremchek said.
He called Chapman “a
very lucky guy.”
The surgery was performed by cranial facial
plastic surgeon Dr. Ed
Joganic.
Kremchek said earlier
that a metal plate would
be inserted in the bone
above Chapman’s left

eyebrows and would remain there permanently.
Chapman has a mild
concussion and no injury to his eye.
“He’s feeling better
and he has some pain
management. We’re optimistic that he is going
to be on the mend,” Reds
manager Bryan Price
said after meeting with
players Thursday morning at the team’s spring
training facility. “Obviously, we’ll stay in touch.
We will make sure we
follow the process as we
continue to get familiar
with the injury itself. We
will let him know how
much support he has and
that we care about him.”
Hopefully, we will see
him here very soon.”
Cincinnati
catcher
Brayan Pena, a fellow
Cuban and Chapman’s
close friend, was one of
several Reds players who
visited the injured pitcher Wednesday night
and spoke to him on the
phone Thursday morning.

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notice
(First published in The Iola
Register, March 18, 2014)
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LAHARPE, KANSAS, TO ALL
PERSONS CONCERNED:
You are hereby notified that
the City of LaHarpe, KS, is considering granting a request to
re-zone 1002 S. Jefferson from a
residential zone to a commercial
zone for the purposes of establishing an automobile shop within
the City Limits of LaHarpe, Kansas.
A public hearing concerning this
proposal will be held on March
25th, 2014, at 7:00 p.m. The public
hearing will take place at LaHarpe
City Hall, which is located at 902 S.
Washington. If there are any concerns, questions, or objections regarding this proposed re-zoning,
you are invited to appear at the
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ACC: Indy sweeps
Continued from B1

out, but a strikeout, a liner
and Levi Ashmoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grounder to third â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he was out by
a catâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whisker â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to end the
threat.
Butler broke the game
open with nine runs in the
top of the seventh against a
pair of Allen relievers.
THE GRIZZLIESâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bats
stayed alive in Game 2. They
scored in every inning but
the seventh.
Butler led 7-0 before Chase
Egelstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grand slam in the
third pulled Allen to within
7-5.
But Independence responded with five in the

top of the fourth, one in the
fifth, and five in the sixth to
put the last nail in the Devilsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; coffin.
The Grizzlies racked up
17 hits and were issued 11
walks, while the Red Devils
committed six errors.
Stats
from
Thursday
were incomplete â&#x20AC;&#x201D; scoring
plays from Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two-run
ninth inning were unavailable â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but we know Francis had three singles, while
Egelston homered, Griffin
had a triple and Cole Slusser
and Maruo each doubled.
Ashmore added a single.
The Red Devils return to
action today with a doubleheader at Independence.

HOUSTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
The Houston Texans
are nearing a deal to
trade
quarterback
Matt Schaub to the
Oakland Raiders, a
person familiar with
the negotiations said
Friday.
The person spoke to
The Associated Press
on the condition of
anonymity because the
deal was not yet complete.
Schaub was Houstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s starter from 2007
until last season, when
he was benched in favor of Case Keenum

after a terrible start to
the year. The Texans
were expected to contend for a Super Bowl
last season, but instead
became
the
NFLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
worst team, sinking
to 2-14, which tied the
worst record in franchise history.
It was clear after last
season that Schaub
didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a future in
Houston, but his departure looked to be
imminent on Thursday night when the
Texans signed veteran
quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.

NO SECOND THOUGHTS
One streak is over and another continues at Hendrick Motorsports. Dale Earnhardt Jr.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s streak of consecutive top-two finishes
came to a thundering halt at Bristol Motor Speedway, where NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Most Popular Driver finished 24th in the No. 88 Chevrolet.
Earnhardt opened the season by winning
the
Daytona 500, then scored
second-place finishes at
Phoenix and Las Vegas.
For those first three outings, the 39-year-old driver
had an average finish of 1.3.
Now add in the 24th at Bristol and Earnhardtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s average
finish in 2014 is 7.0.
Jeff Gordon, who drives
the No. 24 Chevy, kept
his streak going at Bristol.
Gordon has scored four
consecutive top-10 finishes
since the season opened at
Daytona. And just to show how
stats can be skewed, Gordon
now has a better finishing average than Earnhardt. Gordonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
average finish in 2014 is 6.25.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The whole team did an awesome
job,â&#x20AC;? Gordon said after his seventhplace effort at Bristol. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a
really good race car at different times
throughout the night. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crazy, when
we went back racing after the rain
delay we just completely wore
out the left-front tire in just
like 20 or 30 laps. I mean
we were going backwards
in a hurry. Thankfully
for that competition
caution, but we fixed
that and got the car
better, and drove up
into the top five, I was
pretty happy.â&#x20AC;?
Earnhardt? No comment.

side by side in the closing laps in a heated battle for
10th-place honors. Larson prevailed in his No. 42
Chevy while Dillon was 11th. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crazy to think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
kind of a disappointing finish for the way we ran
for most of the race, but all in all it was a good
race,â&#x20AC;? Larson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a lot of fun racing
with Austin there at the end. I definitely had
to get up on the wheel and get the elbows up
and try not to make any mistakes.â&#x20AC;? Now each
rookie has one top-10 finish. Dillon was ninth in
the Daytona 500.

KENSETHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ROUGH RIDE
Matt Kenseth led a race-high 165
laps at Bristol, but by the time the
race ended, his No. 20 Toyota
was battered and bent, and he
finished 13th. Kenseth was rearended at high speed during a
caution when Timmy Hill,
driving the No. 33 Chevy,
blasted his rear bumper.
Later in the race,
Kenseth got into â&#x20AC;&#x153;the
marblesâ&#x20AC;? and tagged
the wall a couple
of times before
regaining control
of his Camry.
When asked
â&#x20AC;&#x153;How was the
race?â&#x20AC;? Kenseth
could only shrug.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we
have enough time for
me to tell you all about
it.â&#x20AC;? What about the hit
from Hill? â&#x20AC;&#x153;He hit me going like 4,000 miles an hour,â&#x20AC;?
Kenseth said.

AP/ROSS D. FRANKLIN

Jeff Gordon hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t finished
outside the top 10 since
November. A big pile of
points could come in handy in
September, but a win would
be nicer.

ROOKIE RUNNERS
The NASCAR Sprint
Cup Series Rookie of the
Year battle was defined at
Bristol when Kyle Larson
and Austin Dillon raced

Associated Press / WADE PAYNE

Mixing Cheez-Its with Frosted
Flakes? Now thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something
that deserves a caution flag.
Is it time to do something about
bump-drafting in the flag stand?
Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assume NASCAR officials will
take a wait-and-see approach to this
one. If it happens again, expect drastic
measures: Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right, a press release
announcing immediate changes.

What triggered this possibility?
Sunday night at Bristol, with the
500th and (long-awaited) final lap
approaching, someone in the flag
stand apparently leaned into an override switch that turned on the trackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
caution lights. Once the error was
uncovered, but before NASCAR could
gather everyone back together for a
return to green, the rains returned and
Carl Edwards carried his big smile to
Victory Lane. Right now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be viewed
as a freak accident, but if it happens
again, expect NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Boys in R&D
to develop an officially licensed Caution Light Underride Switch to go in
the tower, where it will take precedence over the Override Switch. Or
something like that.

Can you get me excited about
Fontana this week?
Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your good news: NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
great â&#x20AC;&#x153;unforeseenâ&#x20AC;? doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know
geography. It can show its face at any
longitude or latitude. The unpredictable wins, tumbles and personality
clashes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all part of NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s timehonored recipe â&#x20AC;&#x201D; often happen when
(and where) you least expect them.

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NASCAR for 33 years. Reach
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